By Kevin Meyer Thanks for regular reader Craig for bringing this story to our attention - another example of the hidden costs of outsourcing. The Ge…

By Kevin Meyer Obviously with that kind of title I can only mean the insanity created, again, when the free market force of nature meets skewed polit…

by BILL WADDELL Companies like Pella turn themselves upside down to become as lean as any manufacturer in the world; and Andersen Window is not far b…

by BILL WADDELL If transportation and logistics were not such a vital link in the manufacturing supply chain I would write this post about the sad st…

By Kevin Meyer What could have happened if our friend Santa Claus had succumbed to the call of the outsourcing lemmings? Another Christmas, another…

by BILL WADDELL I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to achieve excellence - for some impossible to achieve mediocrity - until the lea…

By Kevin Meyer Sometimes we forget that in the lean world value, and waste, is defined from the perspective of the customer.  An article in a recent…

Sometimes you really have to wonder... How quickly dreams can become nightmares. Just a few days after the engineering team behind the Chevrolet Vol…