The latest issue of Manufacturing News is out and as usual it has a list of major plant closings in the United States.  This particular list included…

Who needs a weekend on the couch watching cars go around in circles on ESPN when we can read about the ongoing battle of the false gods?!  SAP and Ora…

Boeing's ballyhooed (in some quarters) lean production of the 787 Dreamliner just ran into the ugly reality of mass production in its supply chain…

There's a good article in today's Wall Street Journal titled the "Face of Toyota" Steps Up at a Critical Time, which discusses how T…

Boeing has been eating Airbus for lunch lately, due to a combination of the innovative technologies in the 787 Dreamliner and the problems with the Ai…

Several blogs have already mentioned this news story on Dr. Sami Bahri, the Florida dentist who has used lean manufacturing methods to significantly i…

My blog ideas folder is overflowing a bit, so here are some mini-rants to clear it out a bit. First off, via the Carpe Diem blog, is an interesting a…

Geography has forced me to concentrate my air travel with United, and lately I haven't been very happy.  Apparently I'm not the only one, as a…