Why Did THAT Happen?
27 January 2008
Regular readers know that I often liken regulation to a balloon... you constrain it in one place and it will pop out in some other, usually unexpected…
Asking Why in IT
25 January 2008
Thanks to reader Alex for sending me a detailed article on how one IT system administrator used the five whys to solve a network connectivity problem.…
No Titles Except "Plant" Manager
24 January 2008
I arrived in Sarasota a couple days early for the quarterly AME board meeting so I could attend an AME Champions Club meeting. The Club is a unique g…
Boeing Should Learn from Vought
23 January 2008
A hat tip to Mark over at the Lean Blog for sending me a couple articles on one of my favorite subjects, Boeing. But instead of bashing Boeing again,…
4 Months To Fix 218,000 Factories
22 January 2008
Quality and turnaround experts should be quivering in fear. Apparently there's a new bunch of gurus who can create miracles of quality improvemen…
Merck is Looking LAME
20 January 2008
Merck has always been one of my favorite companies as it has developed effective vaccines for diseases such as measles, rubella, mumps, bacterial pneu…
New at Superfactory - January 2008
20 January 2008
Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website. The new content is featured in the free monthly e-news…
Companies in the News
18 January 2008
I've been collecting some short news items on companies embarking on the lean manufacturing journey, so here are some recent blurbs to clear out t…