With surprisingly little noise a watershed event in the 'leaning' of American manufacturing happened this week that everyone of us needs to be…

Some of the best lessons to be learned from history result from what you can't find.  In particular, if you plow through everything Shigeo Shingo…

Somebody needs to stop these guys before they ruin any more factories.  The latest out of Delphi comes from a strategy memo leaked to the Detroit News…

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…