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America’s Manufacturing Crisis: Finally Harvard Gets It
Courtesy of Forbes.com. Some of us have long argued that the United States has been committing economic suicide by letting its once-peerless manufacturing base fade away. To those who have [...]
A Remarkable Season
It’s October and I can’t resist writing about one of my true loves – not politics – baseball. It’s been another remarkable regular season. Baltimore and Washington make the playoffs. [...]
Resumé Inflation
Richard Gonzalez, Chief Operating Officer of Abbott Laboratories (market cap $108 billion) has a Bachelors Degree from the University of Houston and a Graduate Degree in Biochemistry from the University [...]
Beyond the 6-Speed: More Ratios for Automatic Transmissions
Courtesy of the New York Times. GENERAL MOTORS and Ford next month are expected to announce an agreement that will pave the way for the automakers to jointly develop new [...]
Attack Iran?
By all accounts I have heard IMTS was a major success for the exhibitors. I am always skeptical about supposed pre-registration numbers at shows, but this year it appears that [...]
In Manufacturing Shift, Made in U.S. but Sold in China
Standing over a small tank of water in a Brooklyn factory, Zbigniew Solecki plunged a gleaming faucet into the water, then shot air at 60 pounds per square inch into [...]
Gimme Shelter
For 10 years, once a month, I would leave my comfortable bed at 4:45 a.m., drive through the winter slush to a local Jewish temple, and schlep mattress pads off [...]
Don’t Talk Politics in Switzerland
At the beginning of September, I attended the Syndicat International Du Décolletage in Bern, Switzerland. The Syndicat, or S.I.D. Congress, is a conference that brings together precision parts manufacturing organizations [...]
Mundane Meets Spiritual At IMTS
Today I get to celebrate the end of IMTS and the start of the Jewish New Year – Rosh Hashanah. For me these are surprisingly connected events to be treasured [...]
Romney’s ad on manufacturing dominance and ‘China’s cheating’
Courtesy of The Washington Post. “Under Obama, we’ve lost over half a million manufacturing jobs. And for the first time, China is beating us. Seven times, Obama could have stopped [...]