A family medical emergency has required a lot of my attention and time this past week, including a short-notice trip to my inlaws in Midland, Michigan…

A fellow by the name of Dave Bartlett, a consultant out of Minneapolis, recently gave a speech in which he argued pretty persuasively that the difficu…

Most readers are probably tired of reading about the automotive industry, but we cannot let today's news from Detroit pass without comment.  It se…

"I've been flooded with e-mails from employees with ideas -- and not just product innovation: everything from plant ideas to saving money, id…

The comment in the Delphi post the other day about looking lean versus actually being lean solicited more than the usual number of emails.  It seemed…

The objective, and the challenge, of writing the blog for Superfactory is to come up with something just about every day in which I can challenge the…

If the people working in America's factories had to live up to the same standards as journalists, there would be no more newspapers for the simple…

If you're like me, you probably know John Ratzen as Cliff Claven, the beer sodden mail man who held up the end of the bar on Cheers for many years…