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	<description><![CDATA[  Thoughts about improving manufacturing productivity.     ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Next Manufacturing Wave]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/21994/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Hapgood writes in the latest issue of CIO magazine about the hstory and future of manufacturing (see Factories of the Future). He goes back about 100 years when the US...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Innovation]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/20875/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks back I was with a group that gets together quarterly to discuss business metrics and innovation issues. Our region has received one of the 13 US Department of...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Benefits of Measurements]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/20720/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many processes can be managed by just observing and asking good questions. In fact, if your processes are not able to be understood by observation, you might want to consider...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Automotive Manufacturing Productivity]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/20551/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Harbour Consulting produces their Harbour Report North America on the productivity of Automobile manufacturing in North America every year. This year shows the gap between the...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Predicting The Future]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/20494/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I saw an advertisement for a movie (Dejavu) coming out where the police were predicting the future by being able to look at the recent past. Wouldn't that be a useful...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Productivity Gains In Danger]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/20338/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) released two reports that, taken together,&nbsp;point to a worrisome trend.  The first report "The NAM Annual Labor Day Report"...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Employee Involvement]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/19779/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend is the Labor Day holiday in the United States when we pause to honor all those who work. According to the U.S. Department of Labor website this holiday is "a yearly...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA["A Single Version of the Truth"]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/19777/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This phrase has been used in many contexts, including by the SAS Institute in the book Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth. It is particularly...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Model Process Optimization]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/19775/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I gave some of my thoughts after re-reading "Process Optimization That Measures Up" from Optimize Magazine. Even though this article is written for Information...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Process Optimization Misses The Human Element]]></title>
		<link>http://factoryinsite.braveblog.com/entry/19774/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of time and energy has been focused lately on business process optimization. Thinking about individual business processes is a good thing and can lead to improvements that...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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