Womack Steps Up
13 February 2006
Over the past few weeks we've taken Jim Womack to task for not being blunt enough with the situation in Detroit. This is because we have tremendo…
The Reality of Despair
1 February 2006
Perhaps it's time for a bit of the lighter side. Many of you are familiar with the de-motivational posters from Despair, which poke a little fun…
Offensive to Good Taste and Decency
31 January 2006
No, I'm not talking about Bill's recent posts... but more on that in a minute. That is what the state of California apparently thinks of manu…
Take off the Blinders
21 January 2006
The concepts and tools of lean manufacturing have been finding their way into many other types of non-manufacturing organizations. Lean healthcare, l…
Infection Injection
21 January 2006
This weekend I attended the quarterly board meeting of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. AME is a practitioner-based organization that pu…
Starting Off Early
20 January 2006
A couple weeks ago I was asked to be part of a group of local manufacturing executives attending a conference at a local high school. The purpose was…
A Generational Influence on 5S
17 January 2006
I've often written about how lean manufacturing methods can be applied to the home, but working on lean in my inlaws' home has now made me rea…
The Amazing Exploding Vacuum
15 January 2006
Behold the power of the list! Perhaps it is the linear-thinking engineer in me or else I just do a poor job of unstructured juggling, but I have alwa…