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…
Manufacturing leadership is evolving—and the data is catching up.
Across industries, research from organizations like McKinsey, Harvard Business Review, and Catalyst shows that women leaders consistently excel in areas that…
Manufacturers hear a lot about “automation training.” But what does that actually mean in practice—and what does a graduate of these programs bring to your operation?
The Industrial Automation programs…
Manufacturing has always been about building—products, systems, and increasingly, the future of entire industries. In the Inland Empire, women are playing a central role in that effort, leading companies, solving…
In his 2026 State of Manufacturing address, National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons delivered a message manufacturers understand well:
The industry is ready to grow—but long-term investment…
Modern manufacturing runs on automation, but automation runs on people. When mechanized processes goes wrong, the costs of down-time can be prohibitive The manufacturing team of today is more like…
Valentine’s Day may feel like a retail holiday, but long before chocolates reach store shelves and bouquets are delivered to doorsteps, manufacturing teams across San Bernardino and Riverside Counties are…
Automation Performance Is a Financial Issue
In modern manufacturing and logistics, automation performance is no longer just an engineering concern. It is a financial one.
As systems become more complex,…
Automation’s Biggest Payoff Comes From People
Automation has changed how modern manufacturing and logistics work. But the biggest gains from automation do not come from machines alone. They come from…