(Manufacturship: Green Hills, New South Wales) -- Despite popular opinion, manufacturing in Australia is far from doomed, but it does need help. One way to address the issue, as academic studies report, is to spend more money on educating a workforce that is better suited to meet today’s technologically advanced manufacturing requirements. But manufacturing companies, especially small and medium enterprises, don’t have 20 years to wait for a major change driven by the academic system.

Manufacturing Money: How CEOs Rapidly Lift Profits in Manufacturing, by Jason Furness and Michael McLean (Amazon Digital Services, 2015) details how manufacturing companies can create bright and profitable futures if they change the way they look at and drive the profit motive of a business. Manufacturing Money outlines the steps and analysis a company must perform to become globally competitive in a short time frame.

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