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How to Use an Absenteeism Rate Formula

Figuring out the amount of time a team member has been absent is simple with the absenteeism rate formula.

Celebrating Women's History Month: Women Who Transformed Manufacturing Over the Last 125 Years

Women have been helping move manufacturing forward for more than a century, from the plant floor to the lab to the executive team. This feature celebrates the leaders, engineers, organizers, and operators who helped shape the industry and what their legacy says about manufacturing today.

How To Make an Employee Attendance Improvement Plan

A practical guide for managers on how to address ongoing attendance issues with a clear improvement plan, set expectations, document next steps, and use a ready-made template to support consistent follow-through.

Manufacturing Labor Shortage in Automotive: How Absences Turn Into Throughput Loss

The automotive labor shortage is not abstract. It shows up in missed stations, slower cycles, extra overtime, rising quality risk, and shift targets that get harder to hit even when the line never fully stops.

How to Calculate the Cost of a Single Absence in Manufacturing and Why One Absence Matters

A single absence can hit labor, production, and supervisor time all at once. Learn how to calculate the full cost in manufacturing.

How Just One Absence Can Cause Line Productivity Loss in Manufacturing

Manufacturing lines run as systems, not headcounts. See how one absence can shift bottlenecks, slow cycle time, disrupt quality, and create measurable productivity loss across the entire line.

Headcount vs Skill Coverage: Why It Matters in Manufacturing

Why staffing “by the numbers” fails in manufacturing, and a look at a framework for measuring and closing skill coverage gaps that create hidden staffing risk.

Attendance Reporting Problems in Manufacturing: Why Monthly Absence Reports Hide Daily Staffing Risk

When attendance data is viewed monthly, operational risk gets buried. See how daily and shift-level reporting uncovers staffing gaps before they turn into missed production and overtime spikes.