Basic Excellence

Those of you that watched the Orange Bowl last night may have seen a rather amusing commercial where a guy walks into a copy store with a stack of bla…

Every day I scan a variety of sources to find the latest news on manufacturing, especially lean manufacturing, so I can bring the best to our readers.…

Earlier this week our friend Mark Graban over at the Lean Blog penned what I consider to be a very important post on "measuring leanness." I…

Walk into just about any workplace these days and you'll find the same motivational posters, with ubiquitous themes like "synergy," wha…

Carl Wright has an article in last month's Reliable Plant magazine ostensibly titled The Correct Approach to Implementing Lean. Unfortunately that…

Last Sunday was an interesting day at our house. We live on a steep street near the top of one of the "seven sisters" small extinct volcanoe…

The Boeing Dreamliner is a beautiful piece of engineering and design, however in the past we've taken Boeing to task for the supply chain convolut…

Over the past couple days our blog buddy Mark over at the Lean Blog has been discussing the recent survey by the Lean Enterprise Institute that asked…