Several months ago I was helping a local company fill some critical manufacturing technician positions.  This area has very low unemployment with a ve…

I have had a chance to get to know Norm Bodek pretty well over the past few months, which has been a great experience.  For those who don't know h…

A contract manufacturing company I'm familiar with currently has two medical device customers who are arch competitors.  This manufacturer makes b…

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…