Got a boss who thinks that lean is hype, or that it doesn't have anything to do with the overall business - just the factories?  Are you buying an…

I've been working on a long term project to compile information on lean government, and recently came across an interesting series of web pages at…

Yesterday we did a summary of Mark Graban's tour of NUMMI, which is a six-part series on his Lean Manufacturing Blog.  Today we have a similar sum…

It is probably pretty hard to find reasons to be thankful if you are one of the 30,000 GM employees whose head is on the chopping block right next to…

Fire in a Toyota plant yesterday - actually a supplier plant, but you know how that works - the name of the supplier is Toyota Auto Body and the Toyod…

We'll try a slightly different format for this third installment of our biweekly Carnival.  To read the first two Carnivals, click here and here.…

Over the past few weeks Mark Graban at the Lean Manufacturing Blog has posted several articles describing his visit to the NUMMI plant.  NUMMI is a jo…

I have to confess that my criticism of Delphi and others in the automobile industry have been as much emotional as logical.  I grew up in a manufactur…