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…

Bear with me here - this is a story with a happy ending.  It just starts out like the same old nagging about manufacturers who spend so much time grov…

That Delphi, GM and Ford are struggling to deal with 'legacy costs' - the cost of guaranteed paychecks and health care coverage for retired an…

One more sad story out of Detroit really doesn't mean much.  The Delphi bankruptcy is actually one of the auto industry's lesser crises at the…

Over the last several months we have written several posts on the problems with the U.S. auto industry, specifically GM and Delphi.  Last May we discu…

A senior manufacturing manager was telling me the story of his company's initial move down the lean path, and how it began at an annual company of…

Those of you who are regular blog readers know that a "blog carnival" is a post that links to recent posts at many other blogs that revolve…