There is no aspect of lean more important than Lean Accounting.  When you boil it all down, the reason many of you are having a hard time getting supp…

Just about everyone is familiar with the story of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and namesake of the famous Prizes - or at least they are familiar…

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…

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…