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On the eve of our celebration of the American Revolution, here’s a post about another revolution: Industry 4.0. Who remembers VisiCalc, often..

Leader Standard Waste Part Two (Did you miss Part One? Read it here.) Many years ago, TSSC introduced to my factory a visual measurement device..

Three years ago I wrote a post entitled “The Emperor’s New Huddle Boards,” in which I expressed concern about the trappings of improvement without..

At the Gemba: Avelino Coehlo and Ines Chiodo show the First Lady a cause and effect problem solving method. In 1987, my company, United Electric..

Last month I joined Eric Buhrens, CEO at Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) to host a leadership team from the Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center. They..

Plus a big "congratulations" to MassMutual Financial Group of Springfield MA. Allow me to explain... As an examiner for the Shingo Prize and also as..

I’m not so sure how I feel about a story I heard this morning of Jim Nantz’s toast visual aid, but it’s so rare that anyone in the public limelight..

Speaking at the 2003 Shingo Conference, Guy Briggs, General Manager of North American operations for General Motors lamented, “We spent the 1980’s..

Today is a favorite holiday for me, full of make-believe supernatural and candy, and unencumbered for the most part by significance. For this..

With our annual Northeast LEAN Conference just a few days away, I want to relate a personal story about the theme of this year’s conference, The..