If your company imports components, parts, raw materials, packaging, or equipment, a Foreign-Trade Zone may be worth a closer look.
A Foreign-Trade Zone, or FTZ, is a federal customs program…
Manufacturing is not standing still. Across the country, some manufacturing subsectors are growing faster than others, and many of those same sectors are also investing heavily in automation and advanced…
On jobs, the Inland Empire is not an outlier: regional manufacturing employment grew roughly in line with U.S. manufacturing over the last decade. But reviewing manufacturing only by jobs numbers…
Riverside County will represent California at SEMICON Taiwan this September, joining the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development at one of the world’s premier semiconductor industry events. For Riverside…
For Wallace “Wally” Brithinee, building things has been a lifelong theme.
He has built companies, helped build institutions, supported the development of technical standards, and, in recent years, helped build…
In manufacturing, growth is a good problem - but it is still a problem.
A sudden increase in orders can expose weaknesses that were easier to manage at a lower…
Every manufacturer has three categories of problems.
There are the things you know: the late shipments, the bottlenecks, the supplier delays, the machine that keeps sitting idle, the improvement project that…
Lance Hastings, President & CEO of the California Manufacturers & Technology Association, delivers the keynote at MCIE’s sold-out 2026 Manufacturing Innovation Awards Dinner in Ontario, CA with Sandra Sisco,…
Kimberly Clarke didn’t plan on a career in manufacturing—but once she stepped onto the floor, she never left.
“I didn’t even know what a purchase order was when I started,”…
For manufacturers looking at defense contracting, the opportunity is real—but the compliance bar is getting higher. The biggest shift is that defense contracting is no longer just about being able…
Lean Manufacturing and Agile are often discussed as separate business philosophies, but they are closely related. In many ways, Agile is the business process application of Lean thinking: a way…
For more than three decades, Kusum Kavia has helped shape the Inland Empire’s reputation as a center of industrial innovation.
Kavia is the CEO of CAI, a Corona-based engineering and…