+ Manufacturing Musings from Factory Insite, Inc. +

Thoughts about improving manufacturing productivity. ...

Last Update: Tue Feb 27 15:08:27 2007

+ The Next Manufacturing Wave + Fred Hapgood writes in the latest issue of CIO magazine about the hstory and future of manufacturing (see Factories of the Future). He ...

+ Innovation + A couple of weeks back I was with a group that gets together quarterly to discuss business metrics and innovation issues. Our region ...

+ The Benefits of Measurements + Many processes can be managed by just observing and asking good questions. In fact, if your processes are not able to be understood by ...

+ Automotive Manufacturing Productivity + Harbour Consulting produces their Harbour Report North America on the productivity of Automobile manufacturing in North America every ...

+ Predicting The Future + Last night I saw an advertisement for a movie (Dejavu) coming out where the police were predicting the future by being able to look at ...

+ Productivity Gains In Danger + The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) released two reports that, taken together, point to a worrisome trend. The first ...

+ Employee Involvement + This weekend is the Labor Day holiday in the United States when we pause to honor all those who work. According to the U.S. Department ...

+ "A Single Version of the Truth" + This phrase has been used in many contexts, including by the SAS Institute in the book Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single ...

+ Business Model Process Optimization + Last time I gave some of my thoughts after re-reading "Process Optimization That Measures Up" from Optimize Magazine. Even though this ...

+ Process Optimization Misses The Human Element + A lot of time and energy has been focused lately on business process optimization. Thinking about individual business processes is a ...