The manufacturing industry in North America is undergoing its fourth evolution into a high-technology, digitalized, and data-driven industry. This Industry 4.0 period began long before the COVID-19 pandemic affected global society but has been accelerated in response to many of the challenges associated with it. In this report, we examine and explore the current manufacturing industry in North America and the challenges and opportunities it faces as adoption of Industry 4.0 thinking, tools, standards, and processes becomes more widespread.
The manufacturing industry in North America is undergoing its fourth evolution into a high-technology, digitalized, and data-driven industry. This Industry 4.0 period began long before the COVID-19 pandemic affected global society but has been accelerated in response to many of the challenges associated with it. In this report, we examine and explore the current manufacturing industry in North America and the challenges and opportunities it faces as adoption of Industry 4.0 thinking, tools, standards, and processes becomes more widespread.
Training Your Workforce to Meet Tomorrow's Challenges
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Critical Networks in Manufacturing
Forum
July 31, 2025 | 11:00am - 2:30pm
If you could design your factory to be everything you wanted it to be, which technologies would you include? What would your throughput look like? And most importantly...do you have a secure and private network in place to help bring your plans to life?
Join us as we discuss how intelligent wireless infrastructure can accelerate your manufacturing operations and improve your security, reliability, scalability, and integration.
Lunch & Learn
Structured Problem Solving: Critical Thinking
July 9, 2025 | 11:30am - 1:00pm
Successful organizations rely on critical thinkers and creative thought leaders who can produce innovative solutions to common workplace problems. Learn how to use effective problem solving techniques to guide you in decision making. Discover ways to unleash creativity within yourself. After completing this workshop, participants will be able to utilize brainstorming methods to enhance the generation of solutions for issues encountered in the workplace.
Structured Problem Solving: Root Cause Analysis
Do you or your employees spend the majority of the day ‘putting out fires’ on issues that reoccur? Root cause analysis is a systematic process to uncover the true sources of issues to eliminate and prevent reoccurrence. Explore methods to successfully implement root cause analysis for issues encountered in the workplace. After completing this workshop, participants will be able to utilize root cause analysis tools to magnify the effectiveness of problem solving efforts for themselves and their teams.
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About PeakPerformance
Peak Performance is devoted to assisting clients in achieving operational excellence and improving business performance by providing consulting and workforce development training services to businesses across many industries.
Striving for operational excellence is one of the most important contributors to an organization’s sustainable performance and growth.
Peak Performance understands that a training program is not a one-size-fits-all. Our services are unique as we build our clients’ training from the ground up, customizing the training to our clients’ needs while using real world simulations and experienced instructors from the manufacturing industry.
Achieving peak performance provides the following benefits:
An effective approach to business operations.
An organization that consistently realizes sustainable growth and increasing valuation.
A productive and innovative workforce.
Our Operational Excellence
Services Encompass Nine Dimensions
The journey to achieving peak performance begins with a framework for developing an operational excellence strategy.
FOUNDATION OPERATIONAL DIMENSIONS
The journey to peak performance for any operation begins with a foundational set of skills that employees can build upon and serves as a basis for supporting additional learning. We offer a solid set of skills training that will not only benefit your entire organization but will also drive the personal success of individual team members.
ADVANCED OPERATIONAL DIMENSIONS
Today’s industrial revolution is requiring manufacturers to have advanced skills in innovation, digital systems and supply chain network. We understand this need and offer an array of customized training that will equip your employees with a refined set of skills to stay competitive in the global marketplace.
PEAK PERFORMANCE OPERATIONS
Essential leadership skills are the pinnacle of creating a workplace that elevates all aspects of a manufacturing operation. Achieve peak performance by developing your employees’ skill sets that are necessary to lead and manage in today’s global environments.
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We use customized, modular training offered with flexible schedules to meet business needs, as well as ongoing follow-ups to track improvements.
Our Industrial Skills Services Encompass Four Segments
Today’s production systems require knowledge in Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Technologies.
Peak Performance uses Industry experts to upskill your workforce in ever increasing complex manufacturing systems through our Industrial Skills training which provides customized hands-on application training in Control Systems, Electro-Mechanics, Mechanical CAD and Mechatronics.
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