September 24, 2020 Digitize to Win: 3 Strategies Manufacturers Can Use It’s no secret, manufacturing is changing.Incorporating digital best practices like working from a relational database, providing real-time information to employees and...
August 31, 2020 Thinking Forward to Harness the Technology of Today for a Better Tomorrow by Helen Horner, AEM Director of Education ProgramsWhen someone asks you to think forward, how far into the future do you venture? Three years? Maybe five? Dare I say 10 years...
August 13, 2020 7 Questions OEMs Should Ask Suppliers as the Economy Reopens As the United States attempts to move toward recovery, original equipment manufacturers may face a new challenge: Many suppliers have experienced partial shutdowns and employee...
August 12, 2020 3 Simple Steps to Improve Your Professional Reputation In business today, your first impression often happens well before you actually “meet” a new contact. Whether they’ve heard about you from a friend or they’ve looked you up on...
August 3, 2020 Time for Congress to Go to Bat for Manufacturers, Pass Critically-Needed Infrastructure Legislation In less than 100 days, voters will make their voices heard by deciding whether or not the vast majority of Congress returns to work in 2021. In what’s been a tough year for many...
July 9, 2020 3 Steps Business Owners Should Take Prior to Succession Planning This is the second in a series of four articles discussing considerations around succession and continuity planning for family businesses leading to how life insurance...
June 30, 2020 The Ongoing Evolution of the Safety Message I read a safety-related cartoon the other day in which the astonished main character tells his friend: "And just like that, everyone knew what PPE stood for."The humor wasn't...
June 30, 2020 Comms Pros Wanted: Let’s Tell Our Industry Story It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Wait. Where have I heard that before?What held true to Charles Dickens’s opening line in his classic A Tale of Two Cities...
June 22, 2020 5 Ways Leaders Can Motivate and Inspire Remote Teams The sudden onset of remote work has impacted companies and organizations across the United States and around the world.It happened almost overnight. The COVID-19 pandemic led...
June 15, 2020 Create a Formal Business Succession Plan in 7 Steps Many owners of small and large family businesses are reluctant to undertake succession planning and end up doing so as a result of other personal planning. Whether the owner or...
January 10, 2022 5 Equipment Manufacturing Trends to Watch in 2022 Both the immediate and long-term future of the equipment manufacturing industry will be defined by the development of a number of prominent trends, each of which are poised to...
January 6, 2022 Celebration of Modern Ag Set to Take Over National Mall Agriculture equipment manufacturers and AEM partners in the Washington D.C. ag community are gearing up to showcase how innovation enables sustainability in the heart of the...
May 9, 2022 Leadership Pitfalls to Avoid at All Costs Not everyone is born to be a leader. The good news, however, is that leadership skills can be developed and refined over time, opening the door to career advancement and higher...
January 24, 2022 How Manufacturing Companies Can Hire Smarter By Tom Hunley, Product Marketing Manager, JobviteMirroring most sectors, the manufacturing industry is on the path to job recovery. With manufacturing jobs on the rise – over 26...
January 17, 2022 The Neuroscience of Conflict and its Impact on Workforce Conflict, which is common in the workplace, can be destructive to a team and an organization. When managed well, conflict can be healthy.Achieving (and embracing) healthy...
March 7, 2022 How Manufacturers Can Take Advantage of Influencer Marketing ByThomas Armitage, Sales Executive, Site Seeker On LinkedIn, Microsoft has 16 million followers. Bill Gates has 35 million.It's a similar situation with Tesla. They have 13...
May 9, 2022 Leadership Pitfalls to Avoid at All Costs Not everyone is born to be a leader. The good news, however, is that leadership skills can be developed and refined over time, opening the door to career advancement and higher...
February 3, 2022 The Environmental Benefits of Precision Agriculture Quantified Agriculture and environmental sustainability have been closely linked for many years. It’s just that there has been little data to quantify the benefits.Until now.“After doing...
April 18, 2022 AEM Launches New Statistics Program for Telescopic Handlers in Latin America As part of its ongoing efforts to provide AEM members with accurate, reliable and timely market share information in Latin America, the association’s Market Share Statistics...
May 2, 2022 AEM Steps Up Efforts in Support of the Bipartisan Innovation Act As Congress returns from a two-week district work period, over 100 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle and both chambers are preparing for negotiations on a global...