I arrived in Sarasota a couple days early for the quarterly AME board meeting so I could attend an AME Champions Club meeting. The Club is a unique gr…

A hat tip to Mark over at the Lean Blog for sending me a couple articles on one of my favorite subjects, Boeing. But instead of bashing Boeing again,…

Quality and turnaround experts should be quivering in fear.  Apparently there's a new bunch of gurus who can create miracles of quality improvemen…

Highlighting Boeing's problems with the 787 outsourcing these days feels a bit like commenting on Britney Spears' parenting skills, but yester…

Merck has always been one of my favorite companies as it has developed effective vaccines for diseases such as measles, rubella, mumps, bacterial pneu…

I've been collecting some short news items on companies embarking on the lean manufacturing journey, so here are some recent blurbs to clear out t…

I'm asking for it by writing this post.  I know I'll regret it, but I need to brag and tempt fate a bit. There have been a multitude of stori…

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…