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As most executives know, what you measure is as important as whether you measure—and when it comes to monitoring the health of "advanced manufacturing" in the U.S., we're all over the map. Part of the ...

A decision handed down in July by the state Supreme Judicial Court increases the chances that companies doing R&D will qualify as manufacturers. If a company makes a prototype of a product, but ...

When manufacturing products, a business should budget the time and necessary manpower to produce the products. This allows the company to estimate the total costs associated with the production of the ...

A manufacturing overhead budget contains all the costs, other than raw materials and labor, that will be incurred by a manufacturing company or department during a fiscal year. These ongoing costs are ...

Manufacturing is complex, requiring many differing skills, technologies, strategies and approaches. Too often, when we speak of manufacturing, we speak of only one small segment and then extrapolate ...

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