If you watched “60 Minutes” on Easter Sunday, you know that the U.S. government has issued an urgent warning about a dangerous new malware that could cripple industrial systems worldwide. This warning follows a recent cyberattack by Russian hackers who attempted to knock out power to two million people in Ukraine. The Biden administration is […]

Companies fail for many reasons. We recently stumbled across an article in Entrepreneur Magazine titled “10 Reasons Why 7 Out of 10 Businesses Fail Within 10 Years.” The piece offers some valuable insight that’s applicable to all companies, even if they’ve been around longer than 10 years. Since many of the reasons listed aren’t relevant, […]

At the end of each year, you can always find numerous industry predictions for the year ahead. Here’s what some manufacturing industry experts are predicting for the sector in 2022. According to the annual Metalworking Capital Spending Survey from Gardner Intelligence, a division of Modern Machine Shop magazine’s publisher, Gardner Business Media, the metalworking industry will […]

By all accounts, the manufacturing industry in Connecticut has been steadily growing for the past several years and it’s projected to keep on growing. In November, the sector posted its largest monthly gain since May 2020. In its 2018 – 2028 employment projections, Connecticut’s Department of Labor predicts the demand for computer-controlled machine operators to […]