Situation Vice President Operations, professional audio equipment manufacturer. Critical issue Although the company had made major improvements to production throughput and first pass yield, they had reached a plateau and wanted to push through to the next level. To...
Think back to the fall of 2008. It looked like the economy was in a free fall. Respected financial institutions like Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, and Wachovia were collapsing and being forced into shotgun weddings with competitors. Manufacturers like Spectrum,...
During a talk at the 2008 Aberdeen Manufacturing Excellence Summit, Larry Coburn, Senior Vice President of Operations at Crown International, shares his insight into the state of manufacturing and what it takes to be successful: “So the word accountability is a good...
