In going through my morning routine of perusing the news in search of interesting developments in the world of manufacturing, I encountered nothing un…

Here I go bashing software again. Really, I think computers are great tools. I obviously use one quite often to write the blog. I use one even more of…

I spend a lot of time reading about lean manufacturing, looking at what companies are doing - both successfully and not so successfully - and looking…

A year ago this month, my article "Shingo's Know Why" was published in Superfactory, marking the beginning of an enormously rewarding re…

Each quarter for the past 20+ years I've received the alumni magazine from my alma mater. Each time I usually read the class notes section first..…

It's time to jolt everyone out of their lean rut. I have spent most of the week being pulled into the insignificant details of lean - whether the…

Sometimes people struggle with my application of the English language, and, in fact, some people find great entertainment value in running my phraseol…

You gotta hand it to the boys at Wharton. They sure are way out there on the cutting edge of management thinking. It seems fitting that in this 60th a…