Pretty stunning figure, eh?  Also pretty easy to achieve, if we just think very slightly out of the box and make a commitment. Most people continue t…

Over the past several years we've been pounding on Detroit for building absurd amounts of excess capacity, often in response to how a "sale&q…

Containerization is considered one of the most significant breakthroughs in the development of modern logistics and supply chains. The ability to effi…

Those of us in the lean world know the power of visual controls to convey information, metrics, and methods.  But can the design of the visual control…

This week we take a journey back in time to see a Porsche factory in the 1960's.…

This week's Examples of Excellence brings us a "Small Improvements" board (err... window), where small improvement ideas are posted and…

A short blurb in yesterday's Wall Street Journal tweaked my sensibilities yet again. Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson braced investors for…

We've talked a lot about Boeing over the last few years, from deriding the supply chain convolutions that created the need for Rube Goldberg contr…