The Detroit News has relly kicked its look at Toyota into high gear. Click here to read a very interesting interview with Seizo Okamoto - President of…

"In its most basic form, lean manufacturing is the systematic elimination of waste from all aspects of an organization's operations, where wa…

Got a boss who thinks that lean is hype, or that it doesn't have anything to do with the overall business - just the factories? Are you buying any…

I've been working on a long term project to compile information on lean government, and recently came across an interesting series of web pages at…

Yesterday we did a summary of Mark Graban's tour of NUMMI, which is a six-part series on his Lean Manufacturing Blog. Today we have a similar summ…

It is probably pretty hard to find reasons to be thankful if you are one of the 30,000 GM employees whose head is on the chopping block right next to…

Fire in a Toyota plant yesterday - actually a supplier plant, but you know how that works - the name of the supplier is Toyota Auto Body and the Toyod…

We'll try a slightly different format for this third installment of our biweekly Carnival. To read the first two Carnivals, click here and here. H…