iSixSigma, the well-known Six Sigma resource site, has an interesting blog, SixSigmaCompanies.  Many of the posts detail the Six Sigma activities at w…

Traditional accounting systems have long been a barrier to lean manufacturing implementations, especially at large companies.  Pull manufacturing meth…

Just in time for summer, the Lean Enterprise Institute has published The Gold  Mine by Freddy and Michael Balle, an excellent novel on executing a le…

A post on the Lean Manufacturing Blog (excellent reading, by the way!) reminded us again of the lessons that NASCAR can give the lean world. Watch th…

We rarely wade into the shark-infested waters of the political side of manufacturing, however a recent post on the blog of the National Association of…

It's June 6th.  24 days until the end of the quarter.  Everyone in most public companies (and many private as well) know what that means... time t…

A few weeks ago we told you about Fab, the book from Neil Gershenfeld that describes the upcoming "personal fabrication revolution."  A few…

I was going through my stack of junk mail and came across a flyer advertising a seminar by a well-known lean manufacturing consultant.  In the flyer h…