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.…

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 jo…

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, design…

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…