It's All About Respect for People
12 March 2008
I was at the Lean Enterprise Institute's Transformation Summit in Orlando last week and had my world rocked by Bob Chapman, Chairman and CEO of Ba…
So Who's More Patriotic?
11 March 2008
Politicians are working themselves into a frenzy attacking the recent Air Force decision to award a lucrative refueling tanker contract to Northrup Gr…
February Results for the Superfactory 20
2 March 2008
February was an interesting month for the Superfactory 20 group of lean manufacturing company stocks. Roche completed its acquisition of January's…
Success in the U.S. - Metal-Tech
26 February 2008
It's always a pleasure to come across articles on companies that are successful manufacturing from U.S.-based factories. Instead of wasting time…
Rockwood Gets What Whirlpool Forgets
25 February 2008
A little over a year ago we told you how Whirlpool was laying off thousands of people at various U.S. factories just to rehire them back at factories…
Lego's Outsourcing Adventure, Part Trois
20 February 2008
Over the last few years we've chronicled the travails of Lego, the Danish maker of plastic children's toys. I like the product and have credi…
Missed Opportunity Spawns a Competitor
4 February 2008
About a year ago we told you how Boeing had recently spun off part of its Commerical Airplanes group, supposedly to reduce costs and focus on "la…
Superfactory 20 Beats S&P 500... Barely
31 January 2008
Early in January we introduced the "Superfactory 20", the top twenty lean manufacturing public companies according to the poll we ran last y…