We often hear of traditional businesses being segregated into binary classes... chiefs and indians, queens and drones, conductor and musicians... you…

On December 27th the world was shocked by the news of the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. A powerful woman leader, controversial in th…

German manufacturer MAN has been dipping its toes into the wonderful world of lean manufacturing. At Munich, Germany-based MAN Nutzfahrzeuge—the 13-p…

The next annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence will be held in Toronto this October 20-24. Each of the last several confer…

Those of you that watched the Orange Bowl last night may have seen a rather amusing commercial where a guy walks into a copy store with a stack of bla…

Two years ago I wrote about how lean manufacturing concepts can be applied to the home, and suggested some New Year's resolutions. From 5S to inve…

I often rant against the outsourcing lemmings that insist on chasing low labor costs around the world while not looking inward to find efficiency impr…

Last year I wrote about my experience with driving in Italy. When most Americans visit Europe, and especially Italy, one of their first observations…