Each year as much as $500 billion of U.S. trade* is lost to a manufacturing epidemic that proliferates in industries from automotive and aerospace to pharmaceutical and electronics — counterfeit and diverted goods. The two main channels – counterfeit goods and the discounted grey market, which includes production overrun, and diversion within the distribution chain […]
Takeaways from Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork™ Conference 2018 “This is one of the most exciting times in manufacturing.” When Tessa Myers, VP of North America Sales, Solutions & Services at Rockwell Automation, made this bold statement at the their 2018 PartnerNetwork Conference, the 600+ Encompass Partners, Solution Partners, and Distributors in the audience agreed. Myers, like […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: How MECCO Stays Two Steps Ahead “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.” Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple, spoke these words. As with so much of what Jobs gave to the world, these […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Design for Success “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” President Abraham Lincoln spoke these words over 200 years ago. Yet they are just as relevant to us today, for he expressed a basic tenet of how MECCO […]
Across the spectrum, business leaders agree that happy employees are productive employees. And with good cause. Recent research from the University of Warwick (Coventry, England) reveals that when companies invest in employee satisfaction, the rewards are bountiful. At Google, employee satisfaction rose by nearly 40% when the company implemented initiatives geared toward satisfaction and happiness. […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Be Humble For over two millennia, writers, scholars, and philosophers have found inspiration in the term “humility.” Born in 551 B.C., Chinese philosopher Confucius is credited for a widely-known aphorism: “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” Fast forward nearly two thousand years, and you’ll read similar words by […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Lend Hands to Your Team “You have two hands: one for helping yourself, and one for helping others.” While the late Audrey Hepburn is perhaps best known for her starring roles in iconic films like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Hepburn became a humanitarian and, ultimately, […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Build Open and Honest Communications “Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” With these words, Paul J. Meyer (the late founder of the Leadership Management Institute and an authority on personal and professional development) stated a fundamental tenet of how we at MECCO […]
The MoonArk, a capsule created by Carnegie Mellon University’s Moon Arts Group, will be unveiled in an installation at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History on September 28, 2017. MECCO joined the project as a collaborator in 2016 to laser mark components of the ark, engraving microscopic visual sound waves of music on titanium rings […]
Putting Our Culture into Practice: Responding with a Sense of Urgency In business, we often encounter the term “sense of urgency.” We read about it in industry literature and hear it referenced by experts on workplace productivity. Yet, our experiences have taught us that a common pitfall is to confuse a sense of urgency with […]
