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		<title>The Future of Automation &#8212; 2010</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/the-future-of-automation-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first of the year is traditionally a time to reflect on big picture trends. In their January 2010 issue, Automation World&#8217;s Editor Gary Mintchell brings together &#8220;technologists, Users, and Pundits&#8221; to &#8220;Ponder the Future of Automation&#8221; You can read about it here at;  Automation World. To quote the first few sentences of &#8220;the State of Innovation&#8221; is to capture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=415&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Productize your Service or Servicize your Product?</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/productize-your-service-or-servicize-your-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems those business models are moving in opposite directions these days. The destabilizing force of unlimited information and data is wreaking havoc with business inertia.  Inertia; because a company set on a course tends to want to stay on that course. Once it chooses to solve a customer problem in one way it channels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=405&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning From Baseball Stats</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/learning-from-baseball-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analyzing stats in different ways can help sharpen focus on the right activity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=390&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Work</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-future-of-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the CNBC Series &#8221; The Business Of Innovation&#8220;  Rethinking Work: &#8220;Despite enormous advances in technology, our workplaces are not nearly as efficient as they could be: each week, more than 40% of employees use incorrect information to make decisions, thereby wasting time and resources. The third episode of The Business of Innovation explores how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=388&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every Book You Have Ever Wanted</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/every-book-you-have-ever-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is making Hard Copy books more available<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=370&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet of Things</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/the-internet-of-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyond Social Networking. Linking your data from machine to machine<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=364&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Innovation</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/manufacturing-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Pinto recently commented on his “Pinto’s Points” Blog on future trends in manufacturing: http://jimpinto.com/enews/25aug2009.html Quoting from Jim’s August 25th Newsletter; We must recognize that major parts of the economy &#8211; government, banking, insurance, health care, consumer services &#8211; use physical wealth, but do not create it. Financial services now comprise 45% of earnings of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=344&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the IPO, and Implications for Firms That Want to Go There</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/after-the-ipo-and-implications-for-firms-that-want-to-go-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following link is to a presentation that ends with some rather chilling observations about the future of American Business. It features Dana Marshall, former President, Chairman and CEO of Applied Energetics Inc. speaking at the 2009 August meeting of the Missouri Venture Forum It lasts about 30 minutes. The chilling stuff is in th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=339&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Factory Makeover</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/michigan-factory-makeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently on NPR’s Marketplace there was an encouraging story about struggling automotive part manufacturers and there quest to fing new markets for their idled machines. They are going green. Listen or read about it at the Marketplace website. http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/07/09/pm_michigan/ The piece comes off somewhat as a commercial for Michigan companies. Not to take anything away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=335&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Boeing&#8217;s 787</title>
		<link>http://efficientfactory.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/update-on-boeings-787/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of weeks after the post on Boeing&#8217;s innovations in the supply chain, a new wrinkle was announced yesterday. Boeing is buying Vought Aerospace based in South Carolina. You can read or listen to it at NPR’s website;  Boeing To Buy 787 Parts Plant In S.C. It seems the strategy to outsource the parts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=efficientfactory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5732610&amp;post=326&amp;subd=efficientfactory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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