Tag: Manufacturing

Along with the profiles of this year's Industry Week's Best Plants Award, the latest issue includes the latest census data on continuous improvement. Of...

A tale of two factories - FORTUNEHere is an interesting piece from the latest FORTUNE magazine. The reporter visited two Tenneco Automotive plants...

Got Boondoggle?: Japan Day 1 - Toyota Motor KyushuBoondoggle indeed, Mike! I am really looking forward to reading more of Mike's posts from...

Aero-News Network: Columbia Aircraft Puts Bend Factory On A DietRead the article and answer me this: did Columbia Aircraft have this bass-ackwards? ...

Onshoring may not be the counter-argument to offshoring, particularly since most of the cases are just KEEPING work in the US when it could...

I won't comment on this much, because I'm not an expert on the Chinese auto industry (I still buy U.S.-built cars). But The Great...

I've been posting a few comments on factory design (Part 1 and Part 2). Here a final, but important, comment on what people do...

I've been posting a few comments on factory design. See Part 1 here. Here are a few more comments on what people do wrong...

I did some of my long-ago masters thesis work on factory design (you can read a rather dated article on the topic here). I've...

Here is the sixth, and probably final, installment of my tales from the NUMMI tour. You can revisit them, by starting with Tale #1 and...

NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop While the NUMMI plant would score very highly on any measure of "Visual Management" standards, you can...

NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why Back to...