Airbus and its parent company, EADS, are not really a manufacturing company.  Rather, they are a massive European welfare program that passes out payc…

It’s not every day that I agree with Tom Friedman, but his October 6th column on Big Ideas and No Boundaries is pretty much right on the money.  He ta…

Not all outsourcing from American manufacturing to Asia is the result of short sighted management or Wall Street insanity.  Some of it is the direct r…

Earlier this week I flew to the other coast to be remotely sequestered with five or six of the most influential people in the lean world. For a variet…

“The biggest leverage a manufacturing company has is the ability to outsource.”                             - Ivan Feinseth, Matrix USA I could almos…

Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website .  The new content is featured in the free monthly e…

Abraham Lincoln told a lot of stories, usually to make a point.  One of his favorites was to ask someone, "If you call a dog's tail a leg, ho…

That really was the headline of a recent CNN article... I'm not talented enough to make that stuff up.  (Update: CNN apparently didn't find it…