I lament the rise of the “Service Economy.” This past Friday was National Manufacturing Day; I did not know that until my editor brought it to my a...

Buried deep within the never ending debate on job growth is a fundamental misunderstanding on the difference between education and training. I am a...

One of our disappointments with this blog is the inability to have effective two-way communication via reader comments. We tried it for a few month...

My hometown is abuzz with anticipation over the completion of the Milwaukee Bucks’ new arena. This is the THIRD new arena since I participated in a...

At the mid-year point of 2017, it appears that the U.S. economy, and the manufacturing sector in particular, are gradually accelerating, with most markets seeing an upside breakout from the flat or down conditions of 2015 and 2016.

Civil or transport engineering failures are very public. They tend to get investigated far more thoroughly than typical mechanical engineering prob...

I have been getting lots of windshield time this year between business travel, house hunting, relocation, and even a few days of vacation. Our fabu...

In the same issue of Industrial Engineering that Percy C. Day published his treatise on herringbone gears, Sterling H. Bunnell offered

  In a recent episode of my favorite zombie apocalypse show, SyFy’s Z Nation, a character celebrates the restarting of a hydroelec...

Do you know your company’s origin story? I have worked at seven different gear companies and have visited dozens more; all of them seem to have an ...