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Manufacturing Myopia—an examination of the condition that afflicts many manufacturers today and a detailed improvement recipe.
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ISSR: What Drives (Your) Manufacturing Cost Competitiveness?—a blueprint for analyzing—and understanding—manufacturing cost drivers and the resulting differences in production costs among manufacturing rivals.
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Make vs. Buy: A Decision Framework—a tool for assessing whether to manufacture products in-house or outsource their production.
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Relocate? Transform? Which Option Is Right?—a guide for those trying to decide whether to transform brownfield (existing) facilities or construct greenfield (new) sites in lower-cost regions.
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Brownfield Transformation: 25 Years on, Fulfilling the Promise of Lean Manufacturing—a discussion of typical myths about lean manufacturing that must be confronted in order to implement sustainable manufacturing excellence in Western plants.
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Taking the Right Steps: Manufacturing Footprint Design as a Competitive Imperative—an approach for creating an agile network of plants by constant surveillance and modeling of supply chain economics.
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Unraveling the Chinese Puzzle: A Practical Approach for Manufacturers—an examination of the opportunities and risks manufacturers face when operating in China and other low-cost nations, and an update on the needs—and potential complexities—of setting up plants in China.
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The Manufacturing Organization: Integrated, Visionary, and Accountable—an appreciation of the delicate balance that must be struck among the assembly line, the factory, and the manufacturing network to create a world-class manufacturing organization.
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Who Manages Manufacturing?—survey results offering a sometimes surprising portrait of manufacturing heads in the modern corporation and what their greatest challenges are.
