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I've been working on a long term project to compile information on lean government, and recently came across an interesting series of web pages at…

It is probably pretty hard to find reasons to be thankful if you are one of the 30,000 GM employees whose head is on the chopping block right next to…

Fire in a Toyota plant yesterday - actually a supplier plant, but you know how that works - the name of the supplier is Toyota Auto Body and the Toyod…

I have to confess that my criticism of Delphi and others in the automobile industry have been as much emotional as logical.  I grew up in a manufactur…

It's time to clear the air about family owned manufacturers.  The fact is that most of them are very well managed and much leaner than anything Wa…

I fired another shot at the effort to repeal the Estate Tax again in the middle of the blog "Missing A Few Rungs On The Corporate Ladder" an…

In order to come up with blog fodder, I have a number of news sources and web sites I cruise every morning to see what's up in the manufacturing w…

I just realized that the Evolving Excellence blog is a year old this month, which made me pause for a few moments of reflection. Creating and buildin…