Now They're Saluting Outsourcing By Oxcart
27 February 2006
Today is Fat Tuesday, the last day to let it all out before Lent when good Catholics like me have to take the high road for 40 days. My Lenten resolut…
Theory Meets Reality In The Heartland
27 February 2006
An old boss of mine was fond of saying, "There are few things in life more tragic than to see your beautiful theories murdered by a gang of bruta…
Manufacturing Is A Team Sport
25 February 2006
The problem with Shingo Prizes and Best Plant Awards is that they fail to recognize that a manufacturing business is a team sport. In the end, they ar…
Devolving Excellence
24 February 2006
Lean Success Is Not Always Good News The Cape News, from Capetown South Africa reported the great news yesterday that the SARS agency is experiencing…
The Masco Mapmakers
23 February 2006
Perhaps the American manufacturer from which the best lessons can be learned is Masco. They are a very big building products manufacturing outfit - ac…
A Little Bit of History
22 February 2006
The Ford old plant at Piquette Avenue in Detroit was put on the list of National Historic Landmarks by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton yesterday…
Farewell To APICS
21 February 2006
The major effect of the Sloan management system on America, and much of the rest of the world, was the demise of the manufacturing companies. General…
Deming, Womack, Kennedy & Shingo
20 February 2006
The flood of articles and blog posts out there saying that if Detroit / American manufacturing / the defense industry / (fill in your own) would just…