I just received this email from APICS and thought it might be interesting to those of you who have operations or supply chain expertise and are wondering if there’s a way to use your skills to help deal […]

I recently stole a cheese grater from Craig Livingston, our CEO at Arena. Since the incident occurred during a yankee swap gift exchange at the Arena holiday party, I’m hoping this will not turn out to be […]

iRobot, makers of robots with such varied talents as vacuuming floors and defusing roadside bombs, has released a video of its latest R&D effort: the Blob ’Bot. The Blob ’Bot is a soft shape-shifting robot […]

The latest Institute of Supply Management (ISM) report on manufacturing, issued last week, finds that the PMI rose for the 5th consecutive month in December 2009 to 55.9%. New orders, production and […]

During my recent holiday travels I was lucky enough to see the Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibit begins with a ring of products, photos and text […]

Photo used with permission from Plimoth Plantation. This article from the Boston Globe talks about a crazy project to recreate a fancy embroidered jacket from the 1600s undertaken by Plimoth Plantation, a […]