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Efficient Management at Shickel Machine Shop

Shickel Machine Shop, a machine shop in Bridgewater, Virginia, makes a wide range of metal products including large stainless steel structures and custom-made machines. Founded in 1938, the company started…

Regain Control of Your Labor Costs With These Tips

When you track direct labor time by hand, things slow down…a lot. You encounter the following challenges: Daily balancing takes much longer than it should. Scheduling issues cause machinists to…

Hiring Can Be a Pain: Make it a Gain

Hiring loyal, reliable, and skilled employees for your manufacturing business is getting harder and harder. More and more people are lining up to gain university degrees (and large amounts of…

Don’t Let Your Problems Make You Lose Customers

#ICant. You’ve seen and heard this hashtag all over – social media, the news, Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel, from the mouth of your children or grandchildren. Someone lightheartedly expressing a frustration – that normally makes us laugh.

But what if that frustration actually cost you customers? What if #ICant decreased your sales, increase…

5 Things You Have To Do To Increase Labor Efficiency

You can’t get jobs done without labor, and you can’t do labor without people. So how do you know if your people are performing as efficiently as possible to save…

Stop Guessing and Start Knowing With the Labor Performance Dashboard

Know who the best employees, department, shifts, and workcenters are within your manufacturing business. The Labor Performance Dashboard comes standard to all Global Shop Solutions ERP software customers and provides…