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There was an absurd article on CNN's web site describing a problem the folks who live near Nissan's Canton, Mississippi plant have with the co…

Dinner at my house consisted of calling the local pizza guy last night.  It was not planned that way, but the product of my hour in the kitchen turned…

There's a world-wide "blogathon" happening today to raise support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. If you would like to make a cont…

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

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 hi…

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"…