My absence from the blog the last few days is the result of having to perform tough duty attending the AME Champions Conference in Bonita Springs, Flo…

Perhaps it's time for a bit of the lighter side.  Many of you are familiar with the de-motivational posters from Despair, which poke a little fun…

No, I'm not talking about Bill's recent posts... but more on that in a minute. That is what the state of California apparently thinks of manu…

My last few posts seemed to spark a greater than usual number of emails decrying me for being unduly 'irreverent", so I looked it up: ir·rev…

Before Alfred Sloan came along (you know who he is - Bill Gates said that if you are only going to read one book about business, read Sloan's - th…

In the article I wrote about the Delphi fiasco a few months back, I said, " There is no bright line of demarcation – lean manufacturers on one si…

The automotive industry is big and visible; it has historically been the bellwether of manufacturing; it is the essence of manufacturing, in fact.  Wi…

I have spent much of the last 24 hours looking at the various news reports, reading the other bloggers, and delving into the particulars of the announ…