Merry Christmas!  My wife and I typically take a last minute trip somewhere for a couple days over the Christmas holiday, and this year it was Lake Ta…

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

Every day I scan a variety of sources to find the latest news on manufacturing, especially lean manufacturing, so I can bring the best to our readers.…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll consider the question of "using more to use less."  Earlier this week President Bush signed…

This week's announcment that Tom Tancredo is dropping out of the presidential race provides a timely reason to do a quick update on our "Best…

Once again we somehow predicted it over a year ago.  This prescience is getting downright spooky, but at least we'll try to use this newfound powe…

A couple years ago Boeing decided to sell the Wichita/Tulsa division of its Commercial Airplanes Group to Toronto-based Onex for $900 million, which r…

We often talk about the value of employees, and especially how many companies do not recognize that people are more than a set of hands assembling pro…