Kevin Meyer

I lost respect for the "reporting" in The Washington Post long, long ago, but I still peruse it briefly online each morning just to see what…

Yesterday we asked the questions from the global IQ quiz that appeared in Richard McCormack's newsletter, Manufacturing & Technology News. Bel…

Our post a couple weeks ago on the Tata Group generated several comments suggesting globalization is pervasive... and still a little unknown. Coincide…

Are you interested in visiting some of the best factories of the best lean manufacturing companies in the world? Then join me on the Japan Kaikaku Exp…

Sometimes our friends across the pond are almost as crazy as we are. British bureaucrats have been warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustain…

The idea of one piece flow being more efficient that batch production is one of those counterintuitive concepts that can make lean manufacturing diffi…

Who says people are just a pair of hands that cost a certain number of bucks per hour? There's a reason why the lean world considers people to be…

I've had to spend much of the last couple weeks up at Stanford Hospital to help with a family medical issue, which has given me the opportunity to…