When you read about a company, there is one very notable combination of phrases that will immediately tell you that they are probably knee-deep into r…

A few days before Christmas I received a long email with the subject of "Help me to understand."  It was from a worker a Whirlpool's Eva…

Over the past week we've been exploring whether the outsourcing or offshoring of subassemblies, later finished, in the United States, has a hidden…

Earlier this week we discussed the myth of manufacturing productivity, and how the number may not account correctly for reduced labor resulting from s…

The wife and I are going to spend a nice quiet Christmas a couple hours up the coast in Carmel.  In the meantime, how about sharing the joys of manufa…

The title of this post does not adequately convey my frustration, and outright anger, at the idiots that give lean a bad name.  Our friend Dan Markovi…

Be forewarned, this has nothing to do with lean manufacturing.  Several of our blogger friends are engaged in a game of "blog tag," where we…

We harp a lot, including yesterday, on American manufacturers that believe subsidies and trade barriers are necessary in order to compete globally.  S…