A couple weeks ago I was asked to be part of a group of local manufacturing executives attending a conference at a local high school.  The purpose was…

Author's Note: I have been contacted by Mr. Ed Pelshaw and he has advised me that (1) he stands by the facts reported by himself, the Florida MEP…

Something is going on with a few lean companies in India that bears keeping an eye on.  The greatest fear American manufacturers have - or at least th…

I've often written about how lean manufacturing methods can be applied to the home, but working on lean in my inlaws' home has now made me rea…

Behold the power of the list! Perhaps it is the linear-thinking engineer in me or else I just do a poor job of unstructured juggling, but I have alwa…

The Fortune list of the 100 best companies to work for includes Pella, a company I have mentioned as being pretty lean a few times over the last few m…

A week and a half ago, Kevin Meyer wrote a piece called "Are Employees Really Your Most Important Asset?" in which he expanded on some of th…

A veritable 'Who's Who' of great American thinkers who, well, think great things, I guess, got together in Washington a while back under t…