Just as Kevin Costner magically transformed a corn field into a baseball field stocked with dead Hall of Famers in Field of Dreams, some very lean man…

Very early in my manufacturing career, I was the beneficiary of some very good managerial advice that I'd like to pass along.  A very wise, vetera…

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…