Grinch Smalley
18 December 2005
Art Smalley just walked into my house and told me I don't know what Christmas is all about. Can you imagine the nerve of this guy? I got 3,000 b…
The Chance of a Lifetime
16 December 2005
In Following The Equator, Mark Twain wrote, "I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us, it is not because of what we see in it. We…
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
16 December 2005
First the good news: There is a Chrysler (DCX for sticklers) engine plant in Toledo that is doing some extraordinary things - extraordinary for the U…
MRP On The Rocks
14 December 2005
Mark Edmondson from Lean Affiliates and Mark Graban have been hammering away at the latest whiz bang variation of MRP, calling it another "siren…
You Have To Play By The Rules
13 December 2005
After seeing some of the recent posts on NWLean, and stumbling across a lean manufacturing forum for manufacturing engineers, it occurred to me that I…
Takin' the Geographic Cure
12 December 2005
If you ever have a chance to sit in on an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you'll see that the basic format is for the recovering drunks to tell thei…
Project Kaizen - Quick and Easy
7 December 2005
As the week of Project Kaizen blogging rolls on with great insight coming from all sorts of unexpected corners, we reach a topic in which one of the &…
The Bright Line of Demarcation
7 December 2005
In 1953, Charles Wilson, President of General Motors and nominee for Secretary of Defense, uttered his famous quote, "...for years I thought that…