Lean Management
Getting Better All The Time: How Lean Management Helped GE’s Jet Engine Plant In Mississippi Take Off
Perched on the banks of the Little Tallahatchie River, Batesville, Mississippi has always been connected to movement. The town, just an hour south of Memphis, Tennessee, spent its early days as a Southern steamboat port. In the 1850s, local farmer James W. Bates sold a plot of land near the river to the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad for a new train depot.
Veterans Day
A Man On A Mission: Retired Air Force Navigator Zeroes In On Factory Improvements
Few sights are more terrifying than a surface-to-air missile (SAM) targeting you while flying a B-1B bomber 25,000 feet over a hostile part of Iraq at 600 mph. But retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. William Dobbs surprised himself in 2003 by remaining preternaturally calm when he alerted his crew members that a missile launch tone had sounded. His only concession to anxiety, he acknowledges ruefully: “My voice came out several octaves higher than normal.”