Are Brazilians just naturally lean? Is it something in their genes? I started to ponder that after flying, for the fourth time in the past seven days…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the lean transformation at Joseph Abboud. Unlike most American apparel makers, they've kept their production in the…

Today's issue of Federal Computer Week gives us another story about how the U.S. military is turning to lean manufacturing methods to improve oper…

I just returned from Chicago where I attended the quarterly board meeting of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. The meetings are always int…

Our occasional guest author Dan Markovitz has an article in the latest Industry Week titled Get Lean Get Innovative where he discusses a common proble…

I came across a rather unique blog yesterday while mindlessly surfing the net during a flight layover. BoomtownUSA by Jack Schultz is about... you gue…

I've long been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy, and moving back to California several years ago only reinforced that lifestyle. I think the last t…

We'll probably see an increasing number of news stories this year on Toyota as they overtake GM as the number one automaker. Last night the NBC Ni…