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DoD Contractors Required to Meet Cybersecurity Requirements by Year End

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 | Cybersecurity | CMMC, Operational Excellence
Cooley Alert October 4, 2017 The window for Department of Defense (DoD) contractors to bring themselves into compliance with cybersecurity requirements is closing. Specifically, changes to the Defe... Read More

Krassimir Totev Rocks As King County Account Executive for Impact Washington

Krassimir Totev, King County Account Executive In his younger years, Krassimir Totev was truly a rock star in Europe; traveling the continent with his band, and developing an amazing following f... Read More

Q & A With Sarah Stuart: Innovate or Die?

Friday, September 8, 2017 | Operational Excellence
Sarah Stuart, North King County Account Executive Here is a question that we received, and while we don’t receive this question very often, we think the answer is useful and interesting. ... Read More

Lean Manufacturing Tools

Friday, September 1, 2017 | Operational Excellence
Anytime I visit a client eager to implement Lean Manufacturing tools, my first question is, what do you need and why? And in many occasions, clients ask for reducing inventory and speeding up the... Read More

Q&A With Sarah Stuart: Continue With ISO/AS9100 Implementation?

Monday, July 31, 2017 | Operational Excellence
Sarah Stuart, Account Executive Here is a question that we receive quite a lot.  In fact, a current client asked us this exact same question yesterday.  Question:  My team is t... Read More

Wilcox Family Farms taps state Work Start grant to keep pace with growth

Commerce awards funding for training, and technical assistance to create 20 new full-time jobs over the next three years in the rural Pierce County community OLYMPIA, WA – The Washington State... Read More

Q&A With Sarah Stuart: What Happens When Lean Fails?

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 | Operational Excellence
Sarah Stuart, Account Executive for North King County Gordy Anderson, President of Box One Solutions I recently received a question though our website.  To answer it, I decided to rea... Read More

An Expert’s Thoughts on the Toyota Kata Summit

Monday, March 6, 2017 | Operational Excellence
  Steve Winters, Account Executive – Northwest Washington Steve has been associated with Impact Washington since 2000, with 10 years on the Board of Directors, two of which as Board Chair.... Read More

What Is the Defintion of Manufacturing? And Why Is It Important?

The latest Congressional Research Service Report was published on February 6, 2017. Read it in its entirety here.   Read More

Attending Events Like the ISO 9001/AS9100 Standards Change: One Day Seminar Can Make Things Clear

Friday, February 3, 2017 | Operational Excellence
By Kristin Kautz, SW Washington Account Executive Recently, Impact Washington hosted an ISO 9001/AS9100 Standards Change: One Day Seminar held in Vancouver, WA.  It proved to be just what th... Read More