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…

Early in January we introduced the "Superfactory 20", the top twenty lean manufacturing public companies according to the poll we ran last y…

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 a…

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…

We've read a lot over the past few years about supposedly excessive CEO pay.  Tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars paid to executives tha…

Regular readers know that I often liken regulation to a balloon... you constrain it in one place and it will pop out in some other, usually unexpected…

Thanks to reader Alex for sending me a detailed article on how one IT system administrator used the five whys to solve a network connectivity problem.…