A Duel at NAM - and Both Sides Miss the Mark
10 July 2006
The July 7th issue of Manufacturing News has a lengthy article on a schism taking place within the National Association of Manufacturers. We've w…
Much Ado About Shingo and Ohno
8 July 2006
Those of you that subscribe to the monthly Superfactory e-Newsletter have probably been following an interesting debate in the Historical Persective s…
One Human Flow in the Air
7 July 2006
Last month we talked about the power of chaos and one piece flow in Italian traffic. By not having (or obeying) traffic signals, Italian traffic move…
Manufacturing and Insourcing at Google
5 July 2006
If you had to list the top manufacturers of computer servers, you would think it would be fairly easy... 1. Dell 2. HP 3. IBM 4. ... Google Goog…
Crude, Lewd... and Lean
26 June 2006
Whether he really knows it or not, Dov Charney of American Apparel apparently understands lean. At a time when most clothing companies are flocking t…
Complex Defects
25 June 2006
For the last couple years we've been talking about being able to create excellence through the power of simplicity. This can take the form of sim…
Yet More Lean Supply Chain Nonsense
22 June 2006
We've talked about this before... what happens to supply chain risk when you become very, very lean? In the June 17th issue of The Economist ther…
Forget SAP, Run Down to Staples
21 June 2006
To quote the favorite phrase of a friend of mine, it's like jabbing a pointed stick in my eye. Yesterday I got a call from the owner of a local m…