Where Have All the Manufacturers Gone?
9 August 2005
I recently had an opportunity to read Industry Week's list of the 50 best performing, publicly traded 'manufacturing' companies. I was di…
Fixing Manufacturing With Paper
28 July 2005
Delphi recently brought in Robert "Steve" Miller to head up the company. Miller is widely touted as something of a turnaround expert. From…
Global Competition and Lean Manufacturing
20 July 2005
Advanced Manufacturing has a thought-provoking article on the need to rebuild our factories if we are to compete. The premise is that simply implemen…
Another Point of View On The Estate Tax
20 July 2005
Our friends at NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) are waging a war of words with the liberal press, most often the Washington Post, concernin…
The Quality of Lean
14 July 2005
For good reason Toyota is used as the premier example of manufacturing excellence. But 2005 has has been a difficult time for the company. Some of t…
Our Great Idea Machine
11 July 2005
Those of you who have read any of my stuff will know that I usually try to work something of the historical background of different facets of manufa…
A Glimmer of Hope in Detroit?
5 July 2005
Several years ago in his automotive history, Richard Wright wrote, "In the economic structure which Detroit built, the laws of supply and demand…
Toyota Home - Applying the Toyota Production System to Home Building
30 June 2005
Toyota is all about cars and trucks, right? Not quite. I was just pointed to the Toyota Home page on Toyota's website, which briefly describes T…