09/01/2026
🎤 Excited to share that our COO, Taylor Powell, is taking the stage tomorrow at the SC Workforce & Manufacturing Summit in Columbia!
She'll be joining the panel "Power of Benchmarking: Manufacturers Helping Manufacturers: How Peer Collaboration Drives Innovation, Operational Excellence, and Business Growth" alongside:
🔹 Mike Demos, OpExChange (Moderator)
🔹 Scott Greene, Chief Improvement Officer, Southern Fabricators
🔹 Dale McClelland, Plant Manager, Timken Bearing Company
Taylor will be talking about what it's like to be a small business inside OpExChange — sitting alongside much larger manufacturers, learning from their experience, and using that perspective to better understand our own customers and their needs.
"OpExChange holds a special spot in my heart. I can say without a doubt that I wouldn't have the creativity and the solutions I've brought back to IMS without SCMEP and OpExChange. From the outside, we might just look like a little motor shop in Anderson — but OpExChange reminds me what part we play in the SC manufacturing world, and why it's so important to build networks and connections. There is so much to be learned. It's given me opportunities I didn't even know were possible, for our company and for my own personal development."
That perspective has shaped how we operate at IMS — pushing us to think outside the box on solutions, from building our own custom software and apps to helping other manufacturers stand up maintenance programs from the ground up (like our work with AFL).
📍 SC Workforce & Manufacturing Summit | Columbia, SC
🕚 Tomorrow at 11:00 AM
