Tag Archives: Industries of the Blind Greensboro

Tuesdays with Practical Finishes 10th Year without Finite Capacity

This month marks the end of our 10th year hosting Tuesdays with Practical, our online user group meeting series for our Sage ERP customers. It’s still hard to believe it all started with a small idea from two of our customers while attending Sage Summit.  It was my first year working at Practical Software Solutions. I… Read more »

Technology, training can help fill vacant manufacturing jobs

A few years ago, I was at Industries of the Blind Greensboro, a non-profit manufacturer, when the conversation turned to their workforce skilled labor shortage. By law (the AbilityOne Program), 75 percent of their overall workforce must be visually impaired people. Part of the non-profit’s mission is to train visually… Read more »

Tech helps defense contractors gain accuracy, speed

Earlier this week, I was looking at some of the manufacturing articles on the Today’s Motor Vehicles website. I came across an interesting one about a more streamlined way for defense contractors to have their products approved for R&D and manufacturing. The National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining launched… Read more »

Practical has a new website! What do you think?

After four months of planning, designing, coding, and testing, the new Practical Software Solutions website is now live. We’ve worked hard on making sure our visitors will have a much better experience no matter what device you’re using. A lot has changed over the past six years since our last website… Read more »

Sage Summit 2015 recap: A letter to Jann Guthridge

Dear Jann, When you wrote to me on July 23 to tell me you and George Koerner couldn’t to make it to Sage Summit 2015, we were in a bit of disbelief. Sage Summit without Jann and George? You’ve been attending with us for so long that it wouldn’t be the same… Read more »

On 3D printing: Give technology time to mature

I’ve been keeping a closer eye on TweetDeck in the past few weeks, as we’ve got a few trade shows coming up on our calendar. Our Grower Vertical team is heading to MANTS (Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show) in Baltimore next week, and Susan Burris from our Sage Construction and Real Estate… Read more »