Sometimes lean manufacturing really can leave a sweet taste in your mouth! At age 160, the New England Confectionery Company (NECCO) is the oldest mu…

No, I'm not refering to your morning constitutional.  Instead I mean the waste in your daily routine that keeps you from being more productive.  M…

Today's edition of Fun With Statistics comes via a hat tip to the Chronicle of the Conspiracy blog, which also goes by the longer and more amusing…

A couple months ago we told you about how a couple of industry trade groups, the Alliance for American Manufacturing and the Domestic Manufacturing Gr…

As if being an outsourcing lemming wasn't hard enough!  All that time and money spent finding and developing a manufacturing "partner" i…

Over the past couple days our blog buddy Mark over at the Lean Blog has been discussing the recent survey by the Lean Enterprise Institute that asked…

Simplicity has always been a favorite topic of mine, and in fact it was the subject of one of the original posts on this blog almost three years ago.…

Just tidying up a bit with a few short notes. First, a week or so ago we pointed you to the ranking of lean companies that Mark over at the Lean Blog…