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Mfg. History: Die Change Challenge

I’ve been working through stuff I accumulated over the years and every so often, a forgotten nugget pops up. From 1985 to 1992, an automotive trade magazine (Chilton’s Automotive Industries – now Automotive Industries) sponsored an competitive event that pitted…

Process Flow Time Machine

This is a reposting of a blog article and corresponding PDF White Paper that I wrote in April, 2015. Click the following image to view the original PDF White Paper in a popup window. [dflip id=”11161″][/dflip] Problem Statement Figure 1…

A Businessy Take on Mastodon

I was a late convert to Twitter. I dabbled about a year ago and then I discovered that Ukraine war news appeared there first. Everyone in the media, government and big business already seemed familiar with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok…

Sampling the Future(s)

About 30 years ago, I sat outside a seminar room at a product design conference. I recall meeting Tom Matano. In the 1990s, Mr. Matano was an icon and rock star in the industrial design world. He was the head…

COVID By the Numbers

I haven’t written a post for nearly two weeks because I was engaged in a small project to stretch and enhance my skills. It’s been a year or two since I built a decent statistical analysis in R and Shiny.…

The Strategy that Beats COVID

In this post I strongly recommended that people read two articles by Tomas Pueyo that lay out a context and strategy to beat COVID without totally trashing our economy or allowing millions to die. Now, I would add a link…

COVID – The definitive roadmap?

The Hammer and the Dance! OK … this does it. These two (long) articles paint the clearest picture of the COVID dynamics and our options that I have seen so far. They are both on Medium, so they are easily…

COVID – Time to swallow pride

Every day, the story of COVID becomes more alarming. Americans will die … the only question is how many, how fast and who they will be. Will we be like China and South Korea … or will we be like…