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Several years ago in his automotive history, Richard Wright wrote, "In the economic structure which Detroit built, the laws of supply and demand…

Toyota is all about cars and trucks, right? Not quite. I was just pointed to the Toyota Home page on Toyota's website, which briefly describes Toy…

Manufacturers are always trying to figure out what their competition is up to. Usually this includes such tasks as scouring trade journals, patent sea…

An article in the June 17th issue of the Kiplinger Letter mentioned how many companies are starting to opt for "nearshoring" as their outsou…

We have had several requests for help on designing a training program for organizations just starting out on the Lean journey. Obviously every situati…

Traditional accounting systems have long been a barrier to lean manufacturing implementations, especially at large companies. Pull manufacturing metho…

It's June 6th. 24 days until the end of the quarter. Everyone in most public companies (and many private as well) know what that means... time to…

A few weeks ago we told you about Fab, the book from Neil Gershenfeld that describes the upcoming "personal fabrication revolution." A few d…