Category Archives: lean manufacturing (17)

Back in December, I wrote a seasonal blog post entitled Epiphany to describe the exciting “aha moments” that sometimes accompany adult learning...

Twice a week for the last several months I’ve been sending out my messages in a bottle to whoever will reel them in. Last week I asked my brother,..

Sometimes things that seem factual are not exactly true. Here are a few examples relating to inventory: When I was a materials manager the auditors..

There is a sign along a roadway I travel that puts a wonderfully positive spin on the purchase of a used car. A 2006 Rav4 with 59,000 miles may..

Twenty-two years ago, a symbol of huge ideological differences was demolished. Ronald Regan’s now famous speech at the Berlin Wall, given two years..

I was joining a manager on a walk through his plant some time back when we came upon an automatic cut-off saw that was cutting twelve foot brass bars..

Most New Englanders have had two jobs for month of January, one of them being shoveling. Record snowfalls have strained muscles, jostled schedules,..

. . . can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. I’m taking this adage out of its original context to make a point that words can be..

I was introduced to a ball-peen hammer at arts and crafts camp when I was about seven years old. I made an ashtray by pounding the bejesus out of a..

I first met Shigeo Shingo at Utah State University’s 14th Annual Productivity Conference in the spring of 1989 where he was receiving an honorary..