Manufacturing Innumeracy

30 October 2005

A fellow by the name of Dave Bartlett, a consultant out of Minneapolis, recently gave a speech in which he argued pretty persuasively that the difficu…

Bring Your Own Depends

27 October 2005

Most readers are probably tired of reading about the automotive industry, but we cannot let today's news from Detroit pass without comment.  It se…

An Emerging Leader?

26 October 2005

"I've been flooded with e-mails from employees with ideas -- and not just product innovation: everything from plant ideas to saving money, id…

Looking versus Being

25 October 2005

The comment in the Delphi post the other day about looking lean versus actually being lean solicited more than the usual number of emails.  It seemed…

Consider The Source

24 October 2005

The objective, and the challenge, of writing the blog for Superfactory is to come up with something just about every day in which I can challenge the…

Jobs For Dummies

23 October 2005

If the people working in America's factories had to live up to the same standards as journalists, there would be no more newspapers for the simple…

Thanks, Cliff

22 October 2005

If you're like me, you probably know John Ratzen as Cliff Claven, the beer sodden mail man who held up the end of the bar on Cheers for many years…

Upgrading In The Desert

21 October 2005

Bear with me here - this is a story with a happy ending.  It just starts out like the same old nagging about manufacturers who spend so much time grov…