A few days before Christmas I received a long email with the subject of "Help me to understand." It was from a worker a Whirlpool's Evan…

Over the past week we've been exploring whether the outsourcing or offshoring of subassemblies, later finished, in the United States, has a hidden…

Earlier this week we discussed the myth of manufacturing productivity, and how the number may not account correctly for reduced labor resulting from s…

The title of this post does not adequately convey my frustration, and outright anger, at the idiots that give lean a bad name. Our friend Dan Markovit…

Be forewarned, this has nothing to do with lean manufacturing. Several of our blogger friends are engaged in a game of "blog tag," where we&…

We harp a lot, including yesterday, on American manufacturers that believe subsidies and trade barriers are necessary in order to compete globally. So…

Last July we told you about a duel at NAM, where the Hunter/Ryan bill divided the larger "manufacturers" (primarily outsourcers) and the sma…

The Business and Media Institute is out with it's list of the Top Ten Economic Myths of 2006 report, which includes all sorts of fun subjects like…