My last few posts seemed to spark a greater than usual number of emails decrying me for being unduly 'irreverent", so I looked it up: ir·rev…

Before Alfred Sloan came along (you know who he is - Bill Gates said that if you are only going to read one book about business, read Sloan's - th…

In the article I wrote about the Delphi fiasco a few months back, I said, " There is no bright line of demarcation – lean manufacturers on one si…

The automotive industry is big and visible; it has historically been the bellwether of manufacturing; it is the essence of manufacturing, in fact.  Wi…

I have spent much of the last 24 hours looking at the various news reports, reading the other bloggers, and delving into the particulars of the announ…

Before the week is out, we will all be inundated with whatever destruction Ford plans to wreak on manufacturing when their restructuring plans are rol…

The concepts and tools of lean manufacturing have been finding their way into many other types of non-manufacturing organizations.  Lean healthcare, l…

This weekend I attended the quarterly board meeting of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.  AME is a practitioner-based organization that pu…