By Lloyd Graff The bi-annual IMTS gripefest will be upon us in half a year. An article in the February…
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By Noah Graff My boss, one of my favorite free thinkers in the world, asked me the other day whether…
By Lloyd Graff Is paying overtime rather than bringing in new employees lean manufacturing practice? For adherents to lean concepts,…
By Lloyd Graff Toyota, the icon of lean manufacturing, now has a big fat problem that could devalue the brands…
By Noah Graff One American is doing a full court press to balance the U.S. trade deficit with China. Stephon…
For EMC Precision Machining in Elyria, Ohio, it was just another day at the office last Friday—except for President Obama…
Good article in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday on the “bullwhip effect” as it relates to Caterpillar. Caterpillar Inc. recently…
By Lloyd Graff I remember virtually nothing from my early childhood. I sometimes think I was born when I was five…
By Lloyd Graff Connecting the dots from Wednesday’s news. Scott Brown, the Republican, won Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, which he…
Jim Rowe, one of Today’s Machining World’s past “Shop Doc” columnists, recently invented two iPhone Apps to deal with everyday…