In March of this year, Bob Vavra, editor of Plant Engineering Magazine, had this to say about Toyota:
“They literally wrote the book on quality management – and more than 50 other books have been written about their quality system. Toyota and quality have been synonymous for three decades around the world – and it’s been [...]
How fast did Apple ship these iPhones? Fast enough so the bonding agent holding the glass to the phone didn’t have a chance to dry? Now that’s express shipping! Here is a comment from Clairesse on Gizmodo’s article about the “yellowing” on some of the new HD displays:
From macrumors:
According to a forum post at [...]
As being reported widely today by Wired, Fast Company, and Gizmodo, the new iPhone works perfectly – unless you’re trying to make a call or surf while holding it in your left hand, which, for us righties is a pretty common exercise.
It looks like the new-fangled metal antenna that wraps around the outside of the [...]
According to the people at the Federal Reserve, in regards to the state of business outside the Fed, things are looking up. The sky is blue, the flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and the gears of the economy are moving again.
What they had to say about manufacturing:
Manufacturing and transportation activity continued to gradually [...]
There’s a story unfolding in China, and we know how this story ends. We know how it ends because we’ve been through it before. Some of the details will be a little different, but the general plot lines are all there.
Act I: Factories! Industrial boom leads to manufacturing base, factories are built and workers are [...]
The great thing about social media is that one tiny voice, such as that of an organization issuing a recall, can reach millions of people, instantly, with little cost or barrier to entry. Unfortunately for companies that have to recall defective products, that’s also true for their dissatisfied customers.
Maytag just issued a recall for 1.7 [...]
Few places can offer more than San Diego on a sunny day, so it was with some reluctance that I stepped off the beach and into the San Diego Convention Center to walk the exhibit hall of the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum.
This exhibit hall was packed with a number of different kinds of companies. [...]
Ever have a calculator open when using Microsoft Excel? I do, and I know I’m not supposed to need it. After all, Excel is, if nothing else, a big fat calculator. Its much more powerful than the calculator in my programs menu because I get to manipulate the raw functions and twist the data in [...]
In the article, The Factories Are Coming to Town! Manufacturing Reimagined for High-Tech Age by Suzanne Labarre at Fast Company, she highlights the vision of David Benque, “a world in which we crank out goods in mobile factories, street stalls, and caravans–smack dab in the middle of the city.”
This would, presumably, take manufacturing out of [...]
When you buy a new expensive electronic product and there’s a problem with it, what happens? You take it back right? If there are continuous problems with stuff, you may change stores. What if I told you that no matter which store you bought from, around 1 product in 10 or 20 would be slightly [...]