by BILL WADDELL in 1894 Bud Hillerich got serious about baseball bats and his father in law's woodworking company registered the name 'Louisv…

by BILL WADDELL Those who suggest the government should play a stronger role in directing manufacturing endeavors should pause when they look at this…

by BILL WADDELL A guy by the name of Harold Sirkin wrote a pretty good piece for Bloomberg Business Week called Made in the USA - and China.  What is…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past several years I've taken Boeing to task, sometimes severely, on their 787 Dreamliner program.  By now we know that t…

Our friend Bob Emiliani runs an ongoing ad on fellow blogger Mark Graban's Lean Blog that pokes a bit of fun at various lean glitterati.  I though…

by BILL WADDELL Now let's get this straight:  GM took $45 billion in tax breaks.  It's stock is at the lowest point since the IPO which makes…

By Kevin Meyer Those of us in the lean world often struggle with enabling a nascent lean transformation to take root in an organization.  Now we may…

by BILL WADDELL Lots of great lean stories are cropping up - too bad few of them are in manufacturing management.  And the stories aren't about s…