Evolving Excellence has become a bit punchy lately, but this is because we feel that a critical debate is needed within the lean manufacturing communi…

Apparently the manufacturing community should be on a continuous improvement curve, but consultants and Shingo Prize executive directors are exempt.…

Kevin's post, "Outsourcing Communication Affects Quality" laid bare the folly expecting quality results from a value stream made up of p…

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.…