The Boeing Blame Game
27 September 2009
We've been telling you about Boeing's disastrous supply chain convolutions with the 787 Dreamliner for years, and over the past several months…
Not another outsourcing lemming
20 September 2009
With all the grief that Bill and Kevin give the US government about its misguided interventions in the free market (quite often deservedly), it's…
Trickling Back
7 September 2009
By Kevin Meyer A couple months ago I told you how GE’s Jeff Immelt was singing a new tune on the glories of outsourcing. A rather radical new tune, w…
Whirlpool Evansville Dies the Unnecessary but Expected Death
3 September 2009
By Kevin Meyer We’ve been following the story of Whirlpool’s Evansville refrigerator factory for several years. Back in August of 2006 we told you ab…
NCR Retreats from Outsourcing
30 August 2009
By Kevin Meyer It's starting to be a trend... a good one for a change. Companies rethinking their outsourcing strategy after realizing how tradi…
How Do You Like Them Apples?
12 August 2009
by BILL WADDELL There is an interesting interview with a Harvard guy named Umair Haque in Business Week, in which he carries on about the "sweat…
The Bikes Return - Thanks to the Evil Profiteers
17 July 2009
By Kevin Meyer Interesting article from an unusual source on bicycle manufacturing returning to the United States from "low cost" overseas…
This Is Good
15 July 2009
Thanks to Jerry Miller at MAPCO & Miller Metal Manufacturing in Ohio. He found it on Onion News, which is probably a more reliable source of info…