Words from Ron Hollis

Quickparts.com (www.quickparts.com) has launched a new video series starring Johnny Quickparts. He will be sharing his adventures in product development. Johnny is the star engineer in Better Be Running! Tools to Drive Design Success, an “almost” best selling book on product development and manufacturing.
A video series with a common character is a very unique approach [...]

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 [...]

“We don’t make anything in this country anymore.” I heard a guy say this morning at Starbucks.
It begs the question “Is that true?” and “Who is the biggest manufacturing country?”   It’s China, right? WRONG! Regardless of the pity parties of the media on how China is the big manufacturing monster and even the new classification [...]