A couple years ago we commented on an advertisement for General Motors during the Super Bowl. To very briefly describe the script, a line full of rob…

I recently came across this article on "evolutionary economics" and was immediately skeptical. Generally such concepts the result of yet ano…

Dov Charney's American Apparel has long been one of our favorite companies. Here's a guy who has figured out how to profitably manufacture low…

Motorola used to be the marvel of six sigma success. Now that once admired company is in a world of hurt. The Schaumburg, Ill., equipment maker has b…

Karen Wilhelm over at Lean Reflections had a great post on Saturday discussing Paul Polak's book Out of Poverty. I always enjoy Karen's though…

This doesn't have much to do directly with lean manufacturing, but I often use Fridays to blather about other topics I find personally interesting…

Retailers are getting fed up with increasing return rates for their products. Widescreen TV's bought just for the Super Bowl and then returned. Co…

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