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…

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…