Sometimes you just have to roll your eyes in wonder. The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockman…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we tackle the quandary of published overhead or administrative costs. We commonly use administrative overhead s…

Peter Abilla over at shmula has what will probably be THE six sigma blog post of the year. First I had to get over the fact that he's soon to be a…

As of July 1st those of us in California will no longer be able to use cell phones without a hands free device, so I joined the throngs throwing money…

We've said it many times, "respect for people" is the most critical of the two major pillars of lean manufacturing. Forgetting this is t…

Regular readers know I have a fascination with how lean manufacturing concepts, as well as the free market, can impact the basic human condition. A fe…

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

Leave it to Taiwan to do things a bit differently.  Instead of putting out the garbage for eventual collection by roving garbage trucks, in Taiwan the…