Believe it or not, it's actually been a couple months since we've gone into battle with the false gods of the almighty algorithm. Perhaps they…

Lean manufacturing methods are being applied to areas completely unrelated to manufacturing itself... health care, education, office and administratio…

About a year ago we told you how Boeing had recently spun off part of its Commercial Airplanes group, supposedly to reduce costs and focus on "la…

We often deride the short-sighted companies that think of manufacturing workers as simply pairs of hands, and then use traditional accounting methods…

Almost three years ago, in one of my very first posts, I wrote about the dangers of horizontal surfaces. Horizontal surfaces have a tendency to colle…

I'll try to remain politically neutral with this story. One of the great incongruities of the current immigration debate in the U.S. is that we ar…

Although the tidal wave of lemmings outsourcing manufacturing to China has begun to slow in the face of a weak dollar and Chinese quality problems, th…

Peter Abilla over at the Shmula blog recently described how he uses visual management techniques to help his five kids become productive members of th…