In a story in today's China Daily ... Rutgers' Chinese solar panels show clean-energy shift "At Rutgers University in New Jersey,…

Thanks to Jim Fernandez for sending me this article about Fiat's struggles to get their Italian workers to adopt American work practices - like th…

A couple of news items lately prompted me to take a look at my undesired investment, as a taxpayer, in General Motors. With a couple of very specific…

Over the last decade or so, perhaps as lean took root and oozed from my professional to my personal life, I've changed from wanting a larger house…

Company #1 Next week it will be one year since I first heard from a mega-giant, multi-national company everyone has heard of with a few questions abo…

I often talk about the importance of the oft-forgotten second pillar of lean manufacturing: respect for people. So many companies, usually driven by e…

Like a lot of companies, Nissan approaches lean like the woman who orders a double cheeseburger, chili cheese fries ... and a Diet Coke ... approaches…

By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…