Fall 2025

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Don’t Wait to Automate

Automation can give manufacturers a huge potential advantage. Here’s how to do it right.
Learning by Doing

Minnesota’s Department of Labor and Industry uses its Youth Skills Training program to give students a real-world look at future opportunities in manufacturing.
Home on the Range

As general manager of Cast7, Laura Rusich is forging a reputation in northern Minnesota’s manufacturing scene.
On a Good Note

After five decades of teaching instrument repair, Minnesota State College Southeast is still finding innovative ways to help students.
The ‘Big Hairy Goal’

Using a focus on people and processes, Lexington Manufacturing is on track to achieve a 10-year goal to more than double the size of the…

Innovations

Coping in Turbulent Times

Enterprise Minnesota’s impactful State of Manufacturing® survey will assess how manufacturers intend to confront an era of extreme unpredictability.

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A Magic Wand?

Pequot Manufacturing takes a “Swiss Army Knife approach” to sharpen its ERP.

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Highly Esteemed

Business growth consultant Abbey Hellickson wins Enterprise Minnesota’s top award — a peer-to-peer honor — for the second time.

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Four Questions: Fred Zimmerman

Insights from a manufacturing icon.

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Pipeline in Doubt

SciTech employee matchmaking efforts look for solutions amid budget threats.

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Change Agent

Much like the products it creates, Mug Experience embraces change and evolution — with some magic thrown in, too.

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Editorial

Driven to Improve

Manufacturers share a drive to improve.

The Final Word

Continuous Improvement for All

Our manufacturing clients rave about the benefits of value stream mapping, so we applied it to our magazine and now we understand the enthusiasm.