Tag: Flinchbaugh

A couple of months ago, I wrote in my column for Assembly Magazine on a topic titled "Fix My Manager, Please!" The essense of...

As we continue our month-long challenge for examples of Everyday Lean, you still have plenty of chances to win. The best will win a...

For this month, submit your ideas of Everyday Lean for the change to win a free copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean. Everyday...

For the rest of May, we are accepting submissions of Everyday Lean, examples from our daily lives of how lean can make stuff easier,...

by Jamie FlinchbaughThe May issue of Assembly Magazine is out and with it, my lastest column of Leading Lean which you can find inside...

Some people have said that the pinnacle of lean programs is an effective suggestion program, whether its called quick and easy kaizen or an...

I've been posting a few comments on factory design (Part 1 and Part 2). Here a final, but important, comment on what people do...

I've been posting a few comments on factory design. See Part 1 here. Here are a few more comments on what people do wrong...

by Jamie FlinchbaughFor those not paying close attention, billionaire and industry-fixer-upper guy Wilber Ross has been on the prowl for struggling auto supply assets....

I did some of my long-ago masters thesis work on factory design (you can read a rather dated article on the topic here). I've...

Here's an interesting article on how Chrysler will be selling its manufacturing equipment from the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant to a Russian manufacturer. This...

I'm not anti-Wal-Mart, anti-Starbucks or anything like that. I think people should be free to compete in a fair market, and if Starbucks brews...