Ranting about needless software upgrades got me thinking about why we love “new” things. Aren’t there some things we should leave well enough alone...

One of the great things about social media is the opportunity to keep up with what is going on with family and friends. Sometimes you can offer an ...

Apprenticeships are frequently mentioned as the key to rebuilding America’s manufacturing sector. The people who usually say this often have limite...

“The gypsies know my future, the angels know my past, I roll around this big wide world to find a love that...<

The backlash discussion posted previously was inspired by the comments posted on a hobby website I frequent. The commentator was of the opinion tha...

Not to worry — no politics here. The “backlash” I want to talk about is the “lost motion” in gear systems. It sometimes seems to rile people up alm...

How many of you have any idea what your company spends on perishable tooling? Working for small companies with tight wad owners perhaps made me mor...

That old “Overhead” article reminded me of what a shock it was when we first moved into cellular manufacturing. After years of investigating ways t...

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

Continuing with that January 1912 issue of Industrial Engineering magazine … Imagine the courage it took to present a seven-page articl...