"I've been flooded with e-mails from employees with ideas -- and not just product innovation: everything from plant ideas to saving money, id…

The comment in the Delphi post the other day about looking lean versus actually being lean solicited more than the usual number of emails.  It seemed…

The objective, and the challenge, of writing the blog for Superfactory is to come up with something just about every day in which I can challenge the…

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…