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NC STATE UNIVERSITY IES AND NCMEP STILL HAVE STRONG SUPPORT ON CAPITOL HILL
Written by Phil Mintz Last week, a group of North Carolina State University Industry Expansion Solutions (IES) staffers accompanied a couple of North Carolina’s manufacturing business leaders to Washington, DC for the annual “Hill Day” visits with the NC delegation of...
RECAP: NCMEP 2023 HILL DAY VISITS
Written by Steven Hughes Barbara Williams and I (Steven Hughes) of the North Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NCMEP) led a visiting team (team #2) that included the president of Core Technology Molding Corporation, Geoff Foster, on a visit to the state’s...
IES Employee Spotlight: Bill Iacovelli
Based out of the IES Concord office, Bill works state-wide to help manufacturers, businesses, healthcare systems and public health departments improve through Lean and Six Sigma thinking and methodology. Bill assists organizations in developing systematic, long-term...
IES Employee Spotlight: Lori Benn
Lori Benn serves as the regional manager for the northeast region, including Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Nash, North Hampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington counties. She...
Loving a Locally-Sourced Valentine’s Day
Get your loved one something special this Valentine’s Day with locally made goods! Discover our list of the best North Carolina-made gifts.
Employee Spotlight: Lori Benn
Lori Benn serves as the regional manager for the northeast region, including Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Nash, North Hampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington counties. She...
The Problem with Workplace Safety – It’s Not News
It’s not news to you that around 9:00 p.m. on January 2, 2023, millions witnessed Damar Hamlin suffer a work-related injury and watched as emergency responders revived and transported him from his “production floor” to a nearby hospital. What might be news is that...
Cyber Blog – The Battered Password
2022 Trends and Insights Before we talk about how to ensure you aren’t creating a password hazard, let’s briefly recap some things we learned from the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR): 82% of breaches involved the Human Element, including Social...
New Clocking In Episode: Smart Textile Technology: The Future of Fabrication
In this episode of Clocking In Phil Mintz sits down with Dr. William Reynolds and Dr. Casey Boutwell – two participants in the NC DMCSP-sponsored propeller project looking to market their breakthrough smart textile technology.
OSHA’s Most Frequently Cited Serious Violations – General Industry, Fiscal Year 2022
OSHA has issued its 2022 annual report on serious violations at U.S. workplaces. What did they find?