My email inbox was clogged again today with a meaningless lean debate.  We do an awful lot of that in the manufacturing community.  We argue over whet…

I am not so indiscreet as to actually post my wife's age on the Internet, but suffice to say she is over 25.  She is also a full time college stud…

After posting the recommendation that Army General Jim Pillsbury be assigned to a new job called 'Manufacturing Czar' I was stunned to read in…

If the Wall Street Journal can be believed, Toyota, Honda and Nissan are about to outdo Coke's 1985 debacle in the annals of business stupidity.…

The news has been reviewed, the grading is complete, and its time to hand out the manufacturing report cards for the week. In reverse order, the grad…

A good way to pick up the pace of the move to lean manufacturing in the United States would be to create a "Lean Czar' position reporting to…

We have a fun new toy at Superfactory that lets Kevin and me know where you're from when you click onto the blog pages.  It's not really '…

Toyota has put a couple of 4 minutes videos on line that provide a fluffy, pretty basic explanation of the origins of Jidoka, JIT and the TPS.  In typ…