How a Single-Source Space Manufacturer Can Streamline Your Supply Chain
As space exploration evolves, components have become increasingly complex. As a result, some companies choose to manage multiple manufacturing vendors with varying specialties to stay competitive. However, this practice can lead to hidden costs that compromise the success of your project. In this article, we’ll outline three of these unintended consequences and explain how a […]
Going Deeper into Space Depends on Pushing What’s Possible in Manufacturing
Beginning with the first artificial satellite in 1957, space exploration has long been important to humankind. The desire to go deeper into space has only grown with the emergence of NewSpace, the global industry of innovative aerospace companies developing commercial spaceflight technologies allowing civilians access to space. With the incredible advances over the last six […]
3 Supply Chain Bottlenecks in Medtech Manufacturing – and How to Avoid Them
Manufacturing medtech components for medical components is a highly precise skill that leaves no margin for error. After all, lives are often on the line, and devices must work reliably and accurately if they’re to execute their missions effectively. But what happens when manufactured components fail to meet the exacting standards they’re designed to achieve? […]
Interview with John Shegda at MPO Summit 2021
Focusing on the world of outsourcing for medical component manufacturing coupled with a keen awareness of innovation in the space, Medical Product Outsourcing’s conference series—the MPO Summit—has provided the medtech industry with the most comprehensive programs for more than 15 years. At this year’s event in Salt Lake City this past September, KMM Group CEO […]
How to Turn Burnout into Takeoff
You want to talk burnout? There was a time that I hated working here. I gave and I gave, pouring in an unsustainable number of hours, only to have the company suck it right up and demand more. It was 2007, and I had come to the sober inclusion that my work lacked meaning – […]
How 100 Steps Changed My Life
I find it interesting how important learnings can come from the most unexpected places. For instance, I learned more about business, leadership, and life from my father on the dunes of Cape Cod as a screaming and crying, six-year-old then I ever learned from the consultants or coaches that I’ve employed since.
Inside the KMM Group Merger
At this point, most of you receiving this newsletter are aware that M&S Centerless Grinding and Meron Medical, have formed a joint-venture/merger with a machining company, KVI Group, to form a new group called KMM Group, Ltd. My new partner, Eric Wilhelm, and I have received much correspondence from our colleagues in the industry that […]
Industry 4.0
Seeing the term “Industry 4.0” around a lot lately? Think that it is just another marketing ploy to get you to buy a new machine tool, or pony up for automation? It’s not. Industry 4.0 is the accepted terminology used to name the rapidly advancing fourth industrial revolution. What do I mean by saying the […]
