Lean Manufacturing, Leadership, and Company Excellence (What Happened at Delphi and GM?)
13 May 2005
The latest issue of Target, the award-winning publication of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, has a cover story on Delphi's pursuit o…
NAM Blog Recognized as "Best of the Blogs"
11 May 2005
Congratulations to the National Association of Manufacturers for having their blog recognized as one of five "Best of the Blogs" by the Amer…
The Coming Manufacturing Revolution
4 May 2005
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Or salivate at the opportunity. A revolution is coming. A manufacturing revolution like nothing seen in history. Far more…
Hirano's Eight Conditions for Flow Manufacturing
30 April 2005
Superfactory just posted Norman Bodek's latest article on Hirano's Eight Conditions for Flow Manufacturing. This follows his previous article…
Freakonomics - The Strange Side of Economic Analysis
26 April 2005
This is a little off-topic from our usual discussion of manufacturing excellence, but I just read an excellent book on the bizarre side of economic an…
Shingo "Know Why" and the Lean Manufacturing Transformation
25 April 2005
Bill Waddell has written an excellent article on the "real world" of Lean, which has been posted on Superfactory. It is based on the thought…
Personal Fabrication and Desktop Factories
23 April 2005
Neil Gershenfeld has just written a very interesting book, Fab, on the upcoming "personal fabrication" revolution. Basically his definition…
5S and the Dangers of Horizontal Surfaces
16 April 2005
I've always had a problem with horizontal surfaces, but recently I toured a couple of manufacturing plants that really highlighted their danger. Y…