The Automotive Innovation Fund (AIF) was established in 2008 to support research and development projects to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. Managed by Industry Canada, the AIF reviews proposals of more than $75 million over 5 years, including vehicle and powertrain… Read more »
Launch of Canadian Manufacturing Network
The Canadian Manufacturing Network has launched with a Manufacturing JOBS Resource Network and a National Skills & Learning Portal. The Canadian Manufacturing Network was made possible through a collaboration between two of Canada’s leading manufacturing organizations: Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC), and… Read more »
September Survey of Manufacturing
Yesterday, StatsCan released their Monthly Survey of Manufacturing for the month of September, and results are positive! For the third month in a row, sales increased – this time, they rose 2.6% to $49.2 billion. Highlights are as follows: Manufacturing… Read more »
August Survey of Manufacturing
Good news for Canadian manufacturers – according to StatsCan, manufacturing sales in August rose 1.4% to $47.6 billion. This is the highest level that manufacturing sales have been at since October 2008. A breakdown of some of the provinces is… Read more »
On Monday, StatsCan posted a new study: The year in review in manufacturing. According to this study, manufacturing sales increased 8.9% from 2009, to a total of $529.8 billion. While this is the largest single annual increase since 2000, it… Read more »
The State of Imports and Exports
There were a number of articles released late last week about different countries around the globe and their states of importing and exporting – looking at what was said about the state of Canadian importing and exporting habits, it’s good… Read more »
August’s Manufacturing Sales
StatsCan released August’s Survey of Manufacturing on Friday. Overall, manufacturing sales in August increased 2% to $45.1 billion. This is 17.6% higher than the low of May 2009. The industry highlights are as follows: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing: rose 13.8% to… Read more »
Monthly Survey of Manufacturing sees sales increases
According to February’s Monthly Survey of Manufacturing, released on April 16th, done by Statistics Canada, manufacturing sales increased once again. Some quick stats: In eight of the previous nine months, sales have been increasing. Dollar manufacturing sales have increased every… Read more »
Creating a Lean Implementation Plan
A while back, I posed about Lean Manufacturing Principles. Today I wanted to go a little bit more in depth with how you can prepare a Lean implementation plan. First of all, let’s take a look at what exactly a… Read more »