Kevin Meyer

Kevin Meyer started the Superfactory website in 1997 as a simple list of manufacturing excellence resource links. The information portal grew tremendo…

Remember those college days, a couple decades or more ago, when we visited the coin-op laundromat each week or so? It's been a while. But I still…

Executive pay, especially so-called "excessive" executive pay, is once again getting quite a bit of press. Companies that receive bailout fu…

Pretty stunning figure, eh? Also pretty easy to achieve, if we just think very slightly out of the box and make a commitment. Most people continue to…

Over the past several years we've been pounding on Detroit for building absurd amounts of excess capacity, often in response to how a "sale&q…

Those of us in the lean world know the power of visual controls to convey information, metrics, and methods. But can the design of the visual control…

A short blurb in yesterday's Wall Street Journal tweaked my sensibilities yet again. Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson braced investors for…

We've talked a lot about Boeing over the last few years, from deriding the supply chain convolutions that created the need for Rube Goldberg contr…