The Sorrow of a Plant Closing – Part 4

Some tolls are too hard. Especially when you pour so much of yourself into paying them.

But that doesn’t mean the growth wasn’t worth stretching for.

Learn the lessons of what’s working for American manufacturing in this final installment.

The Sorrow of a Plant Closing – Part 2

Not every failure is a total loss. Especially when you find something worth fighting for.

And in the midst struggling through the challenges, learning how to fight is a valuable lesson.

Learn more about those lessons in this 2nd installment.

The Sorrow of a Plant Closing – Part 1

Three minutes.

That’s what it took to find five positive differences in a similar package made overseas.

But the culture that plowed through those differences to just “work harder” sank an American icon.

Is there anything the shop floor can do about it?

Find out in the first part of this series.

Manufacturing versus Money Supply

There’s a manufacturing renaissance on the horizon. But some think there’s too much currency to make it work.

Those contradictions make it more important than ever to revisit history.

Here’s the money supply paradox nobody’s talking about.