Companies

Jonathan Katz of Industry Week just wrote an article on the problems at Boeing, specifically how they got "derailed from the lean track." As…

American Apparel has long been one of our favorite companies, for a variety of reasons. For one, CEO Dov Charney is an "interesting" fellow.…

A recent issue of Manufacturing News has an interview with Tom Buffenbarger, head of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers…

Several of us have commented over the past few days on Dell's announcement that it is closing the Austin desktop PC manufacturing operation.  Perh…

I was at the Lean Enterprise Institute's Transformation Summit in Orlando last week and had my world rocked by Bob Chapman, Chairman and CEO of Ba…

Politicians are working themselves into a frenzy attacking the recent Air Force decision to award a lucrative refueling tanker contract to Northrup Gr…

It's always a pleasure to come across articles on companies that are successful manufacturing from U.S.-based factories. Instead of wasting time c…

A little over a year ago we told you how Whirlpool was laying off thousands of people at various U.S. factories just to rehire them back at factories…