This is post number 100 for the Evolving Excellence blog, and it is therefore appropriate that we celebrate blogs themselves by creating the second Ca…

The annual Association for Manufacturing Excellence conference was held last week in Boston.  Over the past 21 years this conference has grown to be b…

Earlier this week I was "enjoying" paying some bills for a side business of mine.  For some reason it is much more of a chore than paying th…

If I were a Hollywood celebrity, or the subject matter of the Superfactory blog were just politics or other unimportant social drivel, the contents of…

I was looking through some old books while at my father-in-law's and came across the instruction manual for his 1951 vintage Versalog slide rule.…

With surprisingly little noise a watershed event in the 'leaning' of American manufacturing happened this week that everyone of us needs to be…

Some of the best lessons to be learned from history result from what you can't find.  In particular, if you plow through everything Shigeo Shingo…

Somebody needs to stop these guys before they ruin any more factories.  The latest out of Delphi comes from a strategy memo leaked to the Detroit News…