Resources dedicated to helping Utah manufacturers grow and thrive.
The 2024 Utah Legislative Session brought a mix of news for manufacturers. While the income tax cut offers some financial breathing room, the energy bill and Great Salt Lake regulations present both opportunities and challenges.
The past decade has seen an increasing number of women entering the manufacturing workforce. While this is hopeful news, women still only make up about a third of employees in the industry. To understand the challenges and rewards women experience in manufacturing, we interviewed Allyse Jackson, CEO of Beehive Meals, and Mofan Sanderson, Quality Control Manager at Lakanto, to understand their experiences in a male dominated industry and see what we can learn from it.
Delivering consistent quality while keeping processes streamlined is an age-old struggle. ISO and Lean methodologies help manufacturers tackle quality control and efficiency, respectively. But how do you decide which one your business needs right now?Well, it’s a trick question. Because you don’t necessarily have to choose between them. Lean and ISO serve different purposes, but they complement each other. ISO is all about locking in processes, writing them down, and making sure they’re happening as written. Lean is about improving those processes for greater efficiency and less waste. Either can help maximize your profits.
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Optimizing processes has the potential to double a manufacturer's profitability. But it’s no small feat. Manufacturing is many things. Naturally agile isn’t one of them. Change and optimization take mammoth efforts, and a plethora of finely tuned collaborations, to see results. iMpact Utah has made transformations and quantifiable improvements in hundreds of manufacturing companies. Every company has its own challenges, but after assessing manufacturers in Utah, the data shows a few areas where most manufacturers struggle.
Take your days from reactive to proactive by putting systems in place that prevent operational fires from happening. With assessment insights, you can discover exactly what your team needs to do to achieve an effective business strategy, ultimately increasing your productivity, employee morale, and profits.
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Test your speed, efficiency, and communication skills in a hands-on "pit crew" simulation with an authentic NASCAR. This is the go-to leadership and continuous improvement event meant for aspiring high-performance teams.
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at products made in Utah and the people who are making them. Talking with founders and executives, we'll dig into the raw material behind these businesses' histories, failures, successes, and lessons learned.
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Learn from manufacturing business experts who share solutions to some of the biggest manufacturing challenges in digestible, 30-minute presentations.
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