by Sam Klaidman | Sep 27, 2021 | Growth
Introduction Unless you are in the robot manufacturing or servicing business, you probably don’t think much about the overall robot market. You have enough things to worry about within your business and industry. Also, many industrial OEMs integrate and sell robots as...
by Sam Klaidman | Sep 2, 2021 | Growth
Here is an interesting conversation from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland: ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ [asked Alice.] ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the [Chesire] Cat. ‘I don’t much care...
by Sam Klaidman | Aug 5, 2021 | Growth
The Great Resignation, combined with the Silver Tsunami, will challenge all of us who are responsible for building and maintaining our organizations! Earlier this year, I shared my thoughts on an urgent situation facing industrial business leaders: the silver tsunami....
by Sam Klaidman | Jul 15, 2021 | Growth
Introduction to Managing Field Engineer Turnover ToolingU-SME states, “Relentless turnover in the manufacturing industry is threatening companies focused on driving productivity and profitability. Finding talent is one of the biggest challenges in the industry, so...
by Sam Klaidman | Jul 13, 2021 | Growth
Many English words that are used in a business context have numerous meanings. My two favorites are brand and manufacturing. Once we get past these definitions we will address the key question,: Can the OEM outsource customer service or must they provide it themself?...
by Sam Klaidman | Jun 2, 2021 | Growth
INTRODUCTION This post has been updated after I spoke about why new services fail with Brian Halverson, an expert on gear trains and capital equipment remanufacturing. Brian has had a number of experiences with trying to introduce new services and was plagued with a...
