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 care of some 54,0…

I never thought I'd be writing something positive about an airline, but good efforts require some kudos. Over the last several months I've don…

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…

I once heard a Parker Hannifin controller describe engineers as people who are good with numbers but lacking the personality and social skills it take…

One of the issues that I've been dealing with which created my recent interest in unnecessary complexity is the boatload of projects being juggled…

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

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

I've blathered at length about Rube Goldberg-esque supply chains at Boeing and other similarly outsourcing-entranced companies. So nothing new thi…