Are you interested in visiting some of the best factories of the best lean manufacturing companies in the world?  Then join me on the Japan Kaikaku Ex…

Sometimes our friends across the pond are almost as crazy as we are. British bureaucrats have been warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustain…

The idea of one piece flow being more efficient that batch production is one of those counterintuitive concepts that can make lean manufacturing diffi…

Who says people are just a pair of hands that cost a certain number of bucks per hour?  There's a reason why the lean world considers people to be…

I've had to spend much of the last couple weeks up at Stanford Hospital to help with a family medical issue, which has given me the opportunity to…

Global warming... boy are we hearing a lot about that these days.  After dire predictions that last year would be the warmest on record as that was wh…

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…