There is no question that there is a lot American manufacturing can learn from Toyota, Honda, Canon and a few other Japanese companies.  The lessons f…

It is probably no coincidence that this time of the year brings thoughts of charity and giving back to the world.  As the result of some family medica…

Art Smalley just walked into my house and told me I don't know what Christmas is all about.  Can you imagine the nerve of this guy?  I got 3,000 b…

Over the past several months you've probably enjoyed Bill Waddell's hard-hitting posts on this blog as much as I have.  His propensity to chal…

In Following The Equator, Mark Twain wrote, "I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us, it is not because of what we see in it.  We…

First the good news: There is a Chrysler (DCX for sticklers) engine plant in Toledo that is doing some extraordinary things - extraordinary for the U…

Mark Edmondson from Lean Affiliates and Mark Graban have been hammering away at the latest whiz bang variation of MRP, calling it another "siren…

After seeing some of the recent posts on NWLean, and stumbling across a lean manufacturing forum for manufacturing engineers, it occurred to me that I…