Words from Ron Hollis

Last week we released the 5th video production of Johnny Quickparts (QuickFlix).  Quickparts is dedicated to continuously improving (and really doing it) as well as trying new things to see what works.  Creating a character and a video production in our industry is definitely in the category of doing new things.

It has been a [...]

This week marks the 10 year anniversary of a major paradigm shift in the manufacturing world. January 3, 2000 was the first business day when a designer could sit at his desk, go to to a website, upload his design data for his custom parts and get a quote INSTANTLY and then buy his parts [...]

Design & Manufacturing Midwest was this week in Chicago. Actually it was in Rosemont but close enough. This was part of the National Manufacturing Week, I think . There seems to be some confusion by me as the name of the shows, weeks and purposes. However this was a manufacturing show that covered all areas [...]

We are in luck…the Obama administration has finally assigned someone to look over the manufacturing industry and make sure we are coordinated with government. In the WSJ, Ron Bloom has been named the senior counselor for manufacturing….I assume that this is the same as a Manufacturing Czar. From the article, it seems that Bloom has [...]

Spent a few days in Chicago at NPE. It was billed as having 75,000 attendees, but reality was more like 40,000…still a lot of folks but pretty slow for the number of exhibitors.
Nothing overly exciting this year. There was some interesting technology on surface decorations, but the company seemed to be in start-up mode and [...]