The Fine Print Risk of Lean
16 August 2008
Is lean manufacturing risky? Perhaps, especially when it's implemented in a superficial manner. But Cisco apparently believes it is also one of in…
Attention: We Can Stop Making the Same Mistake Now
15 August 2008
By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
Another Company Smarter Than the Fortune 50
14 August 2008
If you're a regular reader you know by now how ridiculous outsourcing can be. Traditional accounting methods that value brains as a simple set of…
IW Swings Both Ways on Robots
13 August 2008
I was thumbing through the latest online issue of Industry Week and came across an article that raised my hackles: What Happened to the "Auto&quo…
Are We To Blame?
12 August 2008
By now regular readers know that costs are skyrocketing in China, and even the traditional accounting gurus are saying that outsourcing to that countr…
China Begins to Recruit Globally
11 August 2008
Over the past year or two we've been reading more and more about the growing competition for talent inside China, which is creating rapid wage inf…
Draining the... err... Stench
10 August 2008
Lean people have a favorite saying of "drain the swamp," typically meaning reducing inventory to expose problems. When raw, in-process, and…
Slowing the Entrepreneurial Engine
8 August 2008
The latest issue of Manufacturing News has an interesting, albeit disturbing, article on how fewer startup companies are being created. Entrepreneuri…