Companies

Last week one of my favorite blogs, The Skeptical Optimist, had a post titled Grow or Die.  In it Steve Conover proposes that companies must grow, or…

When you read about a company, there is one very notable combination of phrases that will immediately tell you that they are probably knee-deep into r…

A few days before Christmas I received a long email with the subject of "Help me to understand."  It was from a worker a Whirlpool's Eva…

The wife and I are going to spend a nice quiet Christmas a couple hours up the coast in Carmel.  In the meantime, how about sharing the joys of manufa…

We harp a lot, including yesterday, on American manufacturers that believe subsidies and trade barriers are necessary in order to compete globally.  S…

I have written hundreds of blog posts on just about every angle of lean manufacturing, and my normal routine is to read dozens of articles from public…

The Greenwood Mills company is an old, South Carolina outfit under siege because, of course, nobody can make money in textile manufacturing in the U.S…

My color inkjet printer does about four or five photo quality sheets a minute.  Not too shabby, although it occasionally tries my patience. Imagine a…