One of our favorite companies, American Apparel, is at it again.  A hat tip to Peter for apparently browsing their online catalog to find this new pro…

By Kevin Meyer A couple years ago I made a valiant attempt to draw some vague link between haircuts and lean.  Basically the time it takes to go thro…

By Kevin Meyer We’ve been following the story of Whirlpool’s Evansville refrigerator factory for several years. Back in August of 2006 we told you ab…

by BILL WADDELL I know that the following data comes as no surprise to the lean manufacturing community.  I apologize for telling you what you most c…

by BILL WADDELL Everyone seems hell bent on cost reduction, most often without regard for the kind of costs they are trying to reduce.  For that matt…

Kathleen Fasanella over at Fashion Incubator sent me the following video in response my post this morning on Bashing Suppliers Into Submission.  She&#…

You would think that one of the lessons from the destruction of Ford, GM, and Chrysler (ok, GM and Chrysler) would be that you can't beat up your…

by BILL WADDELL After more than a few years in and out of manufacturers on the lean journey - and especially after launching my 1Day Assessment tool…