QUINCY (WGEM) - October is Manufacturing Month, an annual observance to promote the U.S. manufacturing industry.
The Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center or IMEC and Commerce Bank hosted a “Lean Meets Finance” workshop at John Wood’s Career and Technical Center Wednesday with local manufacturing companies.
Participants learned about combining lean manufacturing principles with financial automation to maximize value.
The method aims to improve efficiency within manufacturing production and response times from suppliers and customers.
“A lot of challenges that have been in place for years. We’ve got the workforce gap; John Wood is helping work on that, we have the competitiveness gap of U.S. manufacturers; that’s something that IMEC can help with, and then we have changing interest r