A Touch Of Class
3 August 2006
Believe it or not, I don't enjoy blogging about the sleazy manufacturers who give all of us a bad name, or the charlatans who make a travesty of l…
And Another One Bites The Dust
1 August 2006
Kodak has made it official. Another once great American post World War II manufacturer is officially and completely out of the manufacturing business.…
Real Innovation At Last
1 August 2006
Kevin and I have hammered the 'Innovation' fad pretty hard lately. Too often innovation seems to be pursued by companies which have utterly fa…
Lean Sigma Innovation
30 July 2006
You can tell that I'm a manufacturing guy without a lick of sense when it comes to marketing. If I were smart, I would change the name of my busi…
Value Your Fellow Travelers
27 July 2006
Way back in the day (a day in 1974 to be precise), Ollie Wight wrote a book called "Production and Inventory Management In The Computer Age"…
Whose Monkey Is It?
25 July 2006
I came across a rather inane article not long ago in which some self-proclaimed expert on supplier development argued that companies should focus on h…
Luddites Versus The Tool Men
24 July 2006
Interesting lean news continues to flow from the UK, and the latest eyebrow raiser is the assertion by the folks at a company called Preactor that lea…
The Folly Of Automating Waste
23 July 2006
There is more lean nonsense floating around, this under the heading "Aviation Company Soars With 'Lean' HR". The gist of the article…