2023: Goals, Predictions, Challenges & Opportunities

Resilience and its counterpart, innovation, are the hallmark of a business’s success. This has never been truer than in the past few years. The ability to learn, pivot and integrate new technology has been a differentiator in outcomes. Here at Baumen we have witnessed some heroic efforts to navigate and strategize around unplanned events. 1 The innovation that has resulted…

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Air Quality Demand: Opportunity or Insurmountable Challenge for Canadian Manufacturing?

Canadian manufacturing has shone brightly during this pandemic demonstrating creativity, adaptability, and resilience as an industry. At the front of the pandemic was our awakening that critical manufacturing such as electronics, PPE, and vaccines, had left Canada. The pandemic further forced us to reckon with our vulnerabilities, particularly to small, microscopic air-borne virus particles and an indoor ventilation infrastructure that…

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Why Manufacturing Still Needs Humans

Manufacturing is the creative expression of the human mind. Throughout history, humans have problem solved and created technology to make life easier. From harnessing fire to using simple tools, manufacturing has allowed humans to build complex machines and societies. It is the most human expression of innovation –to meet a need. Even within the smartest manufacturing plants in the world – it is…

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