Over the past few weeks Mark Graban at the Lean Manufacturing Blog has posted several articles describing his visit to the NUMMI plant. NUMMI is a joi…

I have to confess that my criticism of Delphi and others in the automobile industry have been as much emotional as logical.  I grew up in a manufactur…

It's time to clear the air about family owned manufacturers.  The fact is that most of them are very well managed and much leaner than anything Wa…

One of my favorite weblogs lately is Mark Hurst's This Is Broken. Almost every day he posts photos of "broken" signs, processes, designs…

I fired another shot at the effort to repeal the Estate Tax again in the middle of the blog "Missing A Few Rungs On The Corporate Ladder" an…

In order to come up with blog fodder, I have a number of news sources and web sites I cruise every morning to see what's up in the manufacturing w…

I just realized that the Evolving Excellence blog is a year old this month, which made me pause for a few moments of reflection. Creating and buildin…

This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012. Editor's No…