Just for fun, I spent a few minutes cruising Monster.com to see if anything had changed and, unfortunately, the vast majority of the jobs in automotiv…

Hiroyuki Hirano, the leading lean industrial engineering guru in Japan these days, says the world is moving to an economy of "linearization"…

I've always enjoyed reading columns by Alan Reynolds as he takes the time to really peel back the onion on data and statistics.  Occassionally I&#…

The sheer volume in my email inbox as result of my post yesterday concerning Industry Week's list of the top 50 manufacturing companies is testame…

I recently had an opportunity to read Industry Week's list of the 50 best performing, publicly traded 'manufacturing' companies.  I was di…

We previously introduced you to Fab, the book on personal fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld.  The following is a longer review by your editor, which wil…

Delphi recently brought in Robert "Steve" Miller to head up the company.  Miller is widely touted as something of a turnaround expert.  From…

Advanced Manufacturing has a thought-provoking article on the need to rebuild our factories if we are to compete.  The premise is that simply implemen…