Mea culpa, Mea culpa
10 August 2005
The sheer volume in my email inbox as result of my post yesterday concerning Industry Week's list of the top 50 manufacturing companies is testame…
Where Have All the Manufacturers Gone?
9 August 2005
I recently had an opportunity to read Industry Week's list of the 50 best performing, publicly traded 'manufacturing' companies. I was di…
Fixing Manufacturing With Paper
28 July 2005
Delphi recently brought in Robert "Steve" Miller to head up the company. Miller is widely touted as something of a turnaround expert. From…
Another Point of View On The Estate Tax
20 July 2005
Our friends at NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) are waging a war of words with the liberal press, most often the Washington Post, concernin…
Our Great Idea Machine
11 July 2005
Those of you who have read any of my stuff will know that I usually try to work something of the historical background of different facets of manufa…
A Glimmer of Hope in Detroit?
5 July 2005
Several years ago in his automotive history, Richard Wright wrote, "In the economic structure which Detroit built, the laws of supply and demand…