Volume 2, Issue 1 – Summer 2017

Cover story – Your next hire? Technology is transforming more than your products and processes — it’s changing your workforce

By Ronda Landygo.  This edition of Prairie Manufacturer Magazine is especially near and dear to my heart. Not only does it commemorate the start of our second year in publication,

By Cathy Gillespie.  Fifteen years ago, manufacturing wasn’t prominently fixed on my radar. I had a good job as a commercial banker in a good company, making good money. Apart

By Dayna Spiring.  A primary function of economic development agencies is to develop market intelligence around key economic drivers. This data represents a combination of raw statistics and qualitative information gathered

By Carrie Schroeder.  Lean is a journey, not a destination. It requires enterprise-wide commitment and a long-term vision to identify and solve problems, learn from those experiences, and institutionalize a

By Annie Bell.  Medical marijuana. Pot legalization. Cannabis in the workplace. These phrases have sprouted in popularity — and have elicited corporate trepidation — over the past year, and will

A quick update on the issues and policies impacting you.  By Derek Lothian. Canada Free Trade Agreement After months of intense negotiation, Canada’s provinces and territories finalized a new domestic

Technology is transforming more than your products and processes — it’s changing your workforce.  By Jennifer Findlay.  The robots aren’t coming — they’re here. And with them, they are bringing

By Maryscott Greenwood.  President Donald Trump has been talking tough about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since the early days of his campaign, threatening repeatedly to withdraw the

Meet the Newfoundland grad who turned in her stethoscope for a lab coat en route to becoming Saskatchewan’s newest brewmaster.  By Joanne Paulson.  Amanda Butt is in the ‘party room’

By Jill Knaggs.  It is one of the most prolific sports metaphors in corporate Canada: “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” Those words, first

No Manitoba Manufacturing Week is complete without taking in the iconic Gala Awards Dinner. More than 500 guests packed into the RBC Convention Centre to pay tribute to this year’s

By Jennifer Findlay.  American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Doing well is the result of doing good. That is what capitalism is all about.” For Greg Cruson, general manager