It’s June and that means two TRSA institutes, the Executive Management Institute (EMI) and the Production Management Institute (PMI) are right around the corner in August. For this month’s column, we’ll focus on PMI and answer the question of why it’s worth making this investment in your production team.

First off, I’ll state up front that my company, Unitex, doesn’t do a great deal of classroom-based training. We have an extensive in-house library of safety and production-related materials, and we conduct ongoing training on a wide range of topics in the plant and on the route. That said, we’ve long ...