by BILL WADDELL I came across an article recently that, at first blush, stuck me as just another accounting driven manufacturing company racing down…

By Kevin Meyer Regular readers know that one of my pet peeves is with how most organizations, especially manufacturers, think of their people.  Yep,…

By Kevin Meyer Us lean types are obsessed with value which thereby makes us obsessed with waste.  Finding and eliminating waste of any form can becom…

Mark Graban, our friend over at the Lean Blog and expert on the lean health care side of things, tweeted an interesting link showing the detailed brea…

by BILL WADDELL My post the other day on the PhD Posse at Ford drew quite a bit of mixed reaction both in blog comments, and in my email in box.  Loo…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past three years we've been chronicling Boeing's dive into their outsourcing adventure on the Dreamliner project, and…

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…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we take a quick look at one of those odd economic indexes we come across every now and then. An unconventional…