Tag: Manufacturing

Short post today - the sole purpose is to point you to a great Rhode Island Public Radio story by Megan Hall. She visited...

As I was cleaning out a pile of stuff in my office, I found an unread issue of Inc. magazine from June 2011. One...

I've recently had an email exchange with a retiree who is volunteering in a non-profit hospice care facility. I'm sharing this thoughts with his...

Podcaster Cali Lewis (a fellow DFW-area Texan) hosts a show called GeekBeat.tv, where she normally highlights new consumer tech gadgets and nerdy robots from...

When hospital people say they don't want to be a factory or "we don't want assembly-line medicine," the statement often goes unchallenged. What is...

Friday, I blogged about a WIRED Magazine piece by Joel Johnson that was pretty disrespectful of manufacturing, in general, as he wrote that "every...

Those of you who know my background know that I spent the first 10 years of my career working in various manufacturing sectors (including...

I really like Seth Godin's writing - his blog on marketing is one that I have followed regularly for years and his book Purple...

I'm excited that I have a chance, on Wednesday, to tour the Toyota plant in San Antonio, TX. I'm going with a "Lean Austin"...

In an era where it was a "no brainer" to move factories to China, chasing cheap labor, the Lean world has often spoken out...

Episode 84 is audio from Video Podcast #10 (available onYouTube). This is a conversation with Karl Wadensten, President of VIBCO, a manufacturer in Wyoming,...

Episode #10 is a conversation with Karl Wadensten, President of VIBCO, a manufacturer in Wyoming, R.I. Here, we talk about his radio show, "The...