I had an interesting discussion today regarding why so many engineering students fail to finish their university degrees. The discussion boiled down to the insight that a frequent mistake that we do in academia is to put to much of the blame on the students themselves. True, every university student is and should be responsible […]
Manufacturology turned two months. For me, becoming a blogger also meant that I had to learn to become a blog reader. Yes, I did visit a couple of blogs occasionally before I started my own, but none in my own field of expertise. Now suddenly I realised that I must keep up with what others […]
Yvon Chouinard’s book Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman is both an autobiography, a company history and a book about business philosophy. It is an inspiring read for anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit that dreamed about or actually did start their own business. This book shows that there can be […]
While reading Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s “Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman”, I was struck by the similarity between his description of zen archery and climbing, and a central idea in Toyota way philosophy: that “the right process will produce the right results”. Chouinard writes about archery that “if you’ve […]
Welcome to my site which I intend to use for writings and musings on production research and engineering. Additionally, it will serve as my personal home page. Although I’m Swedish, I will be using English as the main language for this blog. The reason is that the community of production researchers is highly international and […]
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