A couple days ago Bill told you about Toyota's Inexcusable Failure after the company had to recall over three million vehicles. So much for qua…

It is impossible to get writer's block when tasked with writing about American manufacturing. I can always count on the news for entertainment on…

California has lots of problems as everyone knows, and manufacturing is in a virtual free fall there. I suppose it is a case of the forest and the tre…

Many of us in the lean community - all of us long admirers of Toyota and ardent proponents of the business and manufacturing model they spawned - have…

I am back after a week away from Evolving Excellence attending the Lean Accounting Summit in Orlando. It was another amazing experience, and those of…

We've been telling you about Boeing's disastrous supply chain convolutions with the 787 Dreamliner for years, and over the past several months…

It's been nearly a year since I went on the Gemba Research Japan Kaikaku Experience, where I toured several world-class operations and came away w…

I try not to use this blog as a bully pulpit to vent personal frustrations, but over the past couple days I've experienced about the epitome of po…