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Ergonomics Month: Spooky, Scary, (damage to your) Skeletons
You know what’s scary? Watching people sit at their desks. It’s like Michael Meyers just went on a murder spree and that’s just how they wound up – all slumped over and uncomfortable-looking, necks and arms at odd angles with their eyes glazed over. All cheesy...
Employee Spotlight
Dulce Solano
Leading with Divine Purpose
A personal side from our Lean Manager, Phil My childhood was filled with mistakes, bad circumstances, and failures. My father was not a father and I had to figure who I was at an early age and own it. At sixteen, my grandfather told me that we are a product of our...
NeoCon Notes: A take from a tradeshow newcomer
This was my second trip to the NeoCon event in Chicago in as many years and it felt different this time around. I drove down to the show from Holland, Michigan with a few OMT-Veyhl interns, which was an event all its own – interesting people with different...
Employee Spotlight
Paul Hapke
The True Costs of Buying Offshore
Everyone knows that price is one of the most important factors when making any buying decision. Throughout my career as a purchasing agent, it has been my experience that certain countries on the other side of the world frequently provide a great piece-price, making...
Employee Spotlight
Jim Archer
Good Neighbors and Tacos: Culture Observations from an LA Transplant
Before I moved to Holland in 2012 I had never been to the west side of the state. I had visited Michigan about a dozen times before and every time I stayed in Midland. I had been to Detroit, but only to the airport. I would spend some time at my in-law’s lake house...
Employee Spotlight
Austin Robertson
Color Cures Boredom: Thoughts from an Engineer
As a career mechanical design engineer and a bit of a nerd, I often live in a “black and white” universe, constantly breaking solutions down into “ones and zeros” and “straight lines and circles”. Many would think of this as a boring outlook and I must admit that it...
Employee Spotlight
Robert Diamond