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Senior Manufacturing Consultant, Bill Heron, has been with MVATC since 1998. He arrived with 34 years of manufacturing experience, holding positions as Production Superintendent, Manager of Industrial Engineering and Special Projects, and Manager of Facilities and Maintenance.

Bill has a strong background working with organizations of all shapes and sizes, having managed a client base ranging from 10 to 650 employees and up to 450 million in annual sales. He has hands-on experience in plant consolidation, reorganization, and strike management. Bill's professional areas of expertise include Lean Manufacturing and Senior Management Mentoring. He has also received specialized training in Management Process Skills, Preventative Maintenance Management, Business Proposals, Software Training, Time Management, and Project Management.

This year's World Cup has been filled with goals, drama, and even bite marks, but it also offers plenty of great leadership lessons to help connect with and inspire your team. The idea of taking leadership lessons from sports is a common one. It's no wonder many retired sports stars go on to become motivational speakers.  

 

But the World Cup is unlike any other single sport because it captures the world's attention on a scale that is comparable only to the Summer Olympics. Here are seven observations on some of the biggest leadership lessons you should take away from the World Cup and the sport of soccer itself. Read more. 

Mohawk Valley Applied Technology Corporation (MVATC) is pleased to announce that through our Manufacturing Extension Partnerships, we now provide a wider range of computer hardware and technology-based services. New York State businesses throughout the Mohawk Valley Region can take advantage of the skills, knowledge, and experience of engineering experts specializing in prototyping, web design, and database integration.

Manufacturers must transform their business processes and fundamentally rethink how they create, operate, and service smart, connected products in the new era of The Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things (IoT, also Cloud of Things (CoT)) refers to the interconnection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing like devices with the existing Internet infrastructure.

We live in an increasingly smart and connected world. The number of physical devices or "things" connected to the Internet now exceeds the total number of humans on the planet. According to some industry predictions, we're now accelerating this trend to as many as 50 billion connected devices by the end of this decade.

For manufacturers, the implications of this emerging world of the Internet of Things are huge. Read more.