by BILL WADDELL This is about as good a lean story as I have ever come across.  A guy by the name of Rob Reich runs the maintenance operations taking…

By Kevin Meyer I never thought I'd be writing something positive about an airline, but good efforts require some kudos.  Over the last several mo…

By Kevin Meyer While experiencing and exploring the waste of unnecessary complexity, I came across a good article (believe it or not) in the latest M…

by BILL WADDELL I once heard a Parker Hannifin controller describe engineers as people who are good with numbers but lacking the personality and soci…

By Kevin Meyer One of the issues that I've been dealing with which created my recent interest in unnecessary complexity is the boatload of projec…

by BILL WADDELL "It is an old maxim and a very sound one that he who dances should always pay the fiddler," said Abraham Lincoln, and payin…

By Kevin Meyer I've blathered at length about Rube Goldberg-esque supply chains at Boeing and other similarly outsourcing-entranced companies.  S…

This week we visit the Kazuma Surfboards factory.  A bit more fun, a bit more manual.  Surf's up!  Visit Superfactory for more virtual factory tou…