A couple of recent stories on the same topic but from different angles really helps point out the cost of laying off. First Richard McCormack at Manuf…

Thanks for regular reader Craig for bringing this story to our attention - another example of the hidden costs of outsourcing. The German toymaker St…

Obviously with that kind of title I can only mean the insanity created, again, when the free market force of nature meets skewed politically-induced r…

By Anonymous This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…

If transportation and logistics were not such a vital link in the manufacturing supply chain I would write this post about the sad state of affairs in…

What could have happened if our friend Santa Claus had succumbed to the call of the outsourcing lemmings? Another Christmas, another triumph for the…

I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to achieve excellence - for some impossible to achieve mediocrity - until the leadership of the co…

Sometimes we forget that in the lean world value, and waste, is defined from the perspective of the customer. An article in a recent HPM Consortium ne…