From the Editor: Reflecting on 2013

This month, as we do every December, we look ahead at trends that may impact your business, hear from managers who have made their in-plants indispensable to their parent organizations and examine the technologies in-plants plan to invest in next year. We also explore strategies for defending your in-plant against outsourcing, measuring your performance, creating a business plan and transforming your shop into a purveyor of ingenuity instead of just an order taker. So take some time to learn from the experiences of these contributors as you prepare to steer your in-plant into a new year.