by BILL WADDELL The Apria Healthcare company ... Laid off 105 people California in June, along with 30 more in Illinois and Maryland due to "Me…

by BILL WADDELL Akio Toyoda wrote an OpEd piece in the Washington Post offering up his mea culpas and outlining his plan for resolving Toyota's q…

By Kevin Meyer While Toyota executives are scurrying around having lost their way, the employees at their factories are doing what Toyota does best:…

by BILL WADDELL Someone said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.  Try telling that to the…

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…

by BILL WADDELL Looks like Kevin might have been a bit premature when he gave Toyota credit last week for finally pulling the long overdue andon cord…

by BILL WADDELL Craig Anderson, a regular reader, very knowledgeable lean thinker and correspondent, sent along the link to a video of a Brit by the…

by BILL WADDELL Perhaps the best thing that could happen to manufacturing improvement is the debacle that is unfolding at Toyota.  It will put to res…