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Mark over at the Lean Blog tipped me off to an interesting article at Deloitte that debated the pros and cons of manufacturers repatriating jobs back…

With lean built on a foundation of respect for people, value to customers, true partnerships with suppliers and the elimination of waste which dictate…

My post the other day on the PhD Posse at Ford drew quite a bit of mixed reaction both in blog comments, and in my email in box. Look - I have no prob…

Both Ford and Boeing strike me as companies that have an intellectual understanding of lean, but have yet to really internalize the principles and mak…

A few weeks back I wrote a post that included a remark about the powder keg I see in China that is not far from exploding. Mark Welch commented with t…

The truth always comes out in the end. That is a universal fact, even though sometimes it takes a while for the end to come around and the truth to be…

It is impossible to get writer's block when tasked with writing about American manufacturing. I can always count on the news for entertainment on…

California has lots of problems as everyone knows, and manufacturing is in a virtual free fall there. I suppose it is a case of the forest and the tre…