In a strange twist to what has already been a strange and tumultuous presidential campaign season, leading Democratic can-didate Hillary Clinton and leading Republican candidate Donald Trump actually agree on an issue. Sort of.
Not many people can be said to have truly shaped the course of global manufacturing. They include Henry Ford, W. Edwards Deming and Taiichi Ohno. We lost another last month.
On Oct. 5, the United States and 11 other countries finalized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade agreement after seven years of negotiations.