Over the past several months you've probably enjoyed Bill Waddell's hard-hitting posts on this blog as much as I have.  His propensity to chal…

In Following The Equator, Mark Twain wrote, "I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us, it is not because of what we see in it.  We…

First the good news: There is a Chrysler (DCX for sticklers) engine plant in Toledo that is doing some extraordinary things - extraordinary for the U…

Mark Edmondson from Lean Affiliates and Mark Graban have been hammering away at the latest whiz bang variation of MRP, calling it another "siren…

After seeing some of the recent posts on NWLean, and stumbling across a lean manufacturing forum for manufacturing engineers, it occurred to me that I…

If you ever have a chance to sit in on an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you'll see that the basic format is for the recovering drunks to tell thei…

I enjoy conducting training on root cause analysis because it's one of those areas where the production employees often "get it" before…

Welcome to the fourth Carnival of Lean Leadership.  There's a lot of material to cover this time, so we'll get right to it... The highlight o…