The Thomas Blog

Introducing the Next Wave of Supply Chain Excellence

During the time you have spent in the industry, have you been able to deliver over $10 Million in cost savings? How about spearheading an entirely new global distribution model? Were you an integral component of a startup’s growth? It’s okay if you weren’t. 

SEO Penalty Recovery & Analysis: Is Your Website Losing Traffic Consistently?

I get any number of these questions on a daily basis: Is this headline good for SEO? Can you optimize this page? What’s the best practice for backlinks? How do I improve my rank for that? Does this type of content help drive traffic?

3 Profiles Manufacturing Marketers Should Have

very supplier wants to be in front of as many buyers as possible. So how do you stand out from all the other suppliers vying for the same contacts and customers that you are?

Making Manufacturing Cool Again

When people ask me what industry I work in, they’re usually surprised to learn that it’s manufacturing. Why? I’m a New York City native who never learned any sort of manufacturing skills. I went to school for publishing and print, and then received a job at a marketing agency. But then I found myself at THOMASNET, a company steeped in manufacturing and supply chain history.

And it’s here, writing for all of you every week, where I discovered something — manufacturing is incredibly cool.

How to Get A Job Using Social Media

Millennials have a lot of tools at their disposal — especially when it comes to job searching.

As a young professional determined to land a position in marketing, last year I became part of the 73 percent of 18-34 years olds who used a social network to find my current job (which, by the way, I love).

People are always curious about how I landed my current role (and took advantage of my social savviness) so I wanted to share the steps to take:

STEM Programs Gaining Support Throughout the Nation

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are you’ve heard about the skills gap impacting industrial companies  and the push for more STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) programs to close the gap.

9 Tips to Break Through Writer’s Block

We’ve all experienced it; your fingertips are grazing the keyboard, lightly tapping in rhythmic motion, waiting for your brain to catch up.

Your eyes scan every object on your desk and the surrounding walls, desperately seeking inspiration.

After hours of banging out blog posts and crushing editorial calendar deadlines, you’ve simply run out of things to say.

Answers to 5 of your Burning Questions About Space Exploration

To infinity and beyond!

That was the mantra for everyone who grew up watching a bunch of ragtag toys explore a foreign world. The battle cry for the children who wanted to grow up and be astronauts. And over the last couple of years, the U.S. seems to be reinvesting in the same exploratory wonder we had when we landed on the moon.

Navigator Brings Thousands Of CAD Files, Product Specs to TE-CO Customers

World class product manufacturer leverages Thomas's technology to offer richer product data and 3D CAD models

TE-CO Workholding has integrated its website with the Navigator Platform, a Thomas technology that allows TE-CO to provide its customers with thousands of CAD models and product specifications.

The announcement follows a recent partnership between the two companies that emerged to help TE-CO and its distributors improve efficiencies in the availability and flow of rich product data to provide end-users with a better digital experience when searching for TE-CO products.