The annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence is in Chicago next week. This is the largest lean conference in the world, and o…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we take a look at the effect of a point of reference on data. How old are you? Do you feel old? How is that rel…

The Wall Street Journal often has some thought-provoking articles. Occasionally some are truly lean-oriented, but most of the time they may slightly t…

Many companies use "sales per employee" or "customers per employee" as measures of productivity and efficiency.  I've often wo…

The latest issue of Manufacturing News is filled with the usual supposed doom and gloom of U.S.-based manufacturing, with one notable exception. We…

Those of you that watched the often mind numbing Republican debate last week were treated to at least one great line, when Rudy Giuliani said: And I…

Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution has an interesting post regarding an article he penned for the Wilson Quarterly. The piece looks at how peopl…

Imagine there was a major, global company. A company that used to make virtually all of their subassemblies within twenty miles of the final assembly…