American-Made Footballs in the Super Bowl
At a Small Ohio Factory, Leather and Laces Mesh – New York Times It’s not a Lean story, per se, but it’s always nice to read about an American factory. The N.F.L. is the only major sports league whose balls…
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A Collection of Lean Success Stories
Sometimes these stories come across the wire in batches, there’s a flurry of positive Lean news this week: Pierce ablaze with orders Here’ s a story about “lean fire trucks” (and a horrible pun in the newspaper’s headline there, don’t…
Quick Changeover for American Airlines Center
Juggling act sets up rink Even though I’m still a pretty die hard Red Wings fan, I live in Stars country now. Don’t ask me what I’ll do if the Wings and Stars meet in the second round. I went…
Summary: Remaking American Medicine
Andrew Castle, a lean healthcare consultant in the UK, generously offered up this summary of the 4-part PBS documentary series. It’s a long summary, so I’ll just post the start of it here. Direct pdf file download Buy the series…
Eric Christiansen on Being CEO of a Deming Company – LeanBlog Podcast #18
Here is Episode #18 of the LeanBlog Podcast. My guest today is Eric Christiansen, the President of a translation services company, OmniLingua (more can be found here on their philosophy as a company, being a self-described “Deming Company.”) I was…
A tale of two factories – China and U.S.
A tale of two factories – FORTUNE Here is an interesting piece from the latest FORTUNE magazine. The reporter visited two Tenneco Automotive plants that both make mufflers — one in Litchfield, Michigan (my home state) and one in China.…
Who are the Lean Success Stories?
Question for the blog readers: Who are the great lean companies? Don’t give me a list of Shingo Prize winners. Don’t tell us who has done a lot of lean stuff or who has used lean practices here and there,…
"Buy American" Interview with Roger Simmermaker, Part 2
Here is Part 2 of my interview with Roger Simmermaker, author of the book “How to Buy American.” Part 1 can be found here. Roger Simmermaker is the author of “How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism.”…
"Buy American" Interview with Roger Simmermaker, Part 1
It took a while, but here is Part 1 of my interview with Roger Simmermaker, author of the book “How to Buy American.” Roger Simmermaker is the author of “How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism.” He…
Upcoming Interview: Buying American
If you read the post below and the article from PC Magazine, you might have seen this quote: “The thing with computers and electronics is that people have the feeling that it’s basically impossible to buy things that were made…
Can You Really Buy An American PC?
News From PC Magazine: Can You Really Buy An American PC? Yes you can, it depends on what you mean by “American.” Dell has always built desktop PC’s and servers here in the U.S. By “built”, I mean “assembled”, as…
Bad American Influence on Toyota?
Evolving Excellence: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Drag ‘Em Down To Your Level I thought of Bill Waddell when I read this article in the Wall St. Journal today. For all of Toyota’s good practices, the idea of adopting some…