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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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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5 Innovative Ideas Inspiring Change

Greta Thunberg. Volcanoes erupting. Australia burning. If we’re listening, we need to ask if what we’re doing is enough to protect the planet and cool the effects of the current and very real climate crisis? As we start a new year and a new decade, we have been inspired by those driving environmental change around the globe. For example, have…

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Tackling Tariffs: How Canadian OEM’s Can Save

The Tariff Effect It’s hard to listen to the news without hearing the word, ‘tariff’.  Since March 20181 tariffs have hit Canadian manufacturing industries hard.  CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) started a show this fall called ‘Cost of Living’.  The very first show focused on the sustained uncertainty and unpredictability tariffs have caused in our economy and their far-reaching impact on…

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Made in Canada – Innovation, Quality and Growth

In a special report to Canadian Business (2018) the single largest sector represented in Growth 500 companies in Canada was manufacturing. Across Canada’s provinces, from British Columbia to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, manufacturing in a variety of industries is seeing between 363%-1,635% average 5-year growth.1 Specifically, 705% average growth in Ontario alone.1 What’s exciting is that Canada is moving…

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