Digging for facts to support our opinions and preconceived beliefs is not the same thing as learning, yet that is what most of us do. Conservatives on…

Imagine a five story building burning out of control, and some poor soul jumping from the roof in a desperate attempt to save his life, but missing th…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll take a quick look at a common problem when communicating statistics: describing orders of magnitude.…

Interesting article by Kimberly Weisul in BNet describing a study on where CEOs really spend their time. As you'd probably suspect, the vast major…

Within the space of five minutes I came across two articles on two companies that have placed quality ahead of easy short-term profits. First we have…

By Norman Bodek This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…

Although the wave of companies running to China in the mistaken belief that direct labor is their largest cost has slowed, there are still some lemmin…

If you are the praying type a lot of good manufacturing folks in northern Japan can use all the help you can give. The earthquake early this morning…