I came across an article recently that, at first blush, stuck me as just another accounting driven manufacturing company racing down the road to ruin…

Regular readers know that one of my pet peeves is with how most organizations, especially manufacturers, think of their people. Yep, just a pair of ha…

Us lean types are obsessed with value which thereby makes us obsessed with waste. Finding and eliminating waste of any form can become obsessive... pe…

By Tom Shaw This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012. O…

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…

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. Look - I have no prob…

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

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…