A core aspect of lean is execution, fast execution. Ohno and Shingo often pushed their folks to just try new ideas and refine later instead of endless…

Bill Waddell is an independent lean manufacturing consultant and the author of Rebirth of American Industry. A leading lean practitioner for over 20 y…

Kevin Meyer started the Superfactory website in 1997 as a simple list of manufacturing excellence resource links. The information portal grew tremendo…

Remember those college days, a couple decades or more ago, when we visited the coin-op laundromat each week or so? It's been a while. But I still…

Executive pay, especially so-called "excessive" executive pay, is once again getting quite a bit of press. Companies that receive bailout fu…

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 to…

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…