Kodak has made it official.  Another once great American post World War II manufacturer is officially and completely out of the manufacturing business…

Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website.  The new content is featured in the free monthly e-new…

I wonder if the marketing whizzes at Ford read the NAM/McGladrey report on success factors for manufacturing companies, where the #1 best practices wa…

Kevin and I have hammered the 'Innovation' fad pretty hard lately.  Too often innovation seems to be pursued by companies which have utterly f…

NAM, The Manufacturing Institute, and RSM McGladrey just published a 62 page report on The Future Success of Small and Medium Sized Manufacturers.  We…

You can tell that I'm a manufacturing guy without a lick of sense when it comes to marketing.  If I were smart, I would change the name of my busi…

I can almost feel the consternation in the outsourcing think tanks at the strategy departments of narrow-minded companies and consultants all over Nor…

Way back in the day (a day in 1974 to be precise), Ollie Wight wrote a book called "Production and Inventory Management In The Computer Age"…