Factory Tour of the Week: Eco Apparel
10 January 2009
This week we dive into Eco Apparel, a small clothing manufacturer.…
Pushing Back on the Fine Print
9 January 2009
I'm bouncing around the country this holiday season, and just came across the following in the fine print of my Avis rental car contract: Effecti…
Management Improvement Carnival - The Best of 2008
7 January 2009
John Hunter at Curious Cat has asked several of us to help co-host part of a larger scale Management Carnival Best of 2008 series where several blogge…
New at Superfactory - January 2009
6 January 2009
Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website. The new content is featured in the monthly e-newslette…
Look Out Wal-Mart, Here Comes Tesco
5 January 2009
The featured article on Superfactory in January is a piece by one of the heavyweights of the lean movement, Richard Schonberger, titled The Skinny on…
Time for Government Kaizen
4 January 2009
Obama says he's going to scrutinize the federal budget line by line. Good luck with that. Although I applaud his desire to cut wasteful spending…
What the Heck is Twitter?
4 January 2009
Most of us have heard about Twitter by now... that social networking phenom based around people posting short messages about themselves and what they&…
Factory Tour of the Week: Audi A3
3 January 2009
This week we visit the Audi A3 factory in Ingolstadt. Compare this to the BMW factory we visited several weeks ago, especially the WIP inventory leve…