It's always a pleasure to come across articles on companies that are successful manufacturing from U.S.-based factories. Instead of wasting time c…

A little over a year ago we told you how Whirlpool was laying off thousands of people at various U.S. factories just to rehire them back at factories…

We've occasionally touched on how lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methods can be applied to higher education, and our friend Bob Emi…

The latest Knowledge@Wharton has an intriguing article titled Talent on Demand: Applying Supply Chain Management to People. As the author notes, Supp…

I'm coming off a hectic week of dealing with some family medical issues, so instead of diving right into lean manufacturing and enterprise-related…

Over the last few years we've chronicled the travails of Lego, the Danish maker of plastic children's toys. I like the product and have credit…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics, we ask you to be careful of fads, especially those driven by popular passion. We all want to be environmentall…

Last month we told you how Lenovo, the Chinese company that bought the rights to the IBM computer line, is moving manufacturing facilities out of Chin…