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Last week I had the opportunity to join my son, Bret, for lunch at his school in honor of National School Lunch Week. It is not often that I...

By Market Share? By Sales Revenue? By Op Inc? By Earnings Per Share? By Quarter to Quarter Comparison? All traditional measures that fail to...

When I returned home from Japan, via I-74 from the Indianapolis Airport to Greensburg, I could not help but notice the huge array of earth m...

With my Japan Kaikaku Experience host by Gemba Research ending, I started to reflect upon all that I experienced during my week long lean s...

For our last full day in Japan, we left the modern manufacturing world to catch a glimpse into Japanese history and explore their rich tradi...

After the intense 3S morning session followed by stretching exercises, I walked through the plant to see the lean transformation at HOKS. Ev...

On day 4 of the Japan Kaikaku Experience , our group traveled to the northeast coast of Kyushu Island. We arrived bright and earlier at HOKS...

I apologize for the delay in posting on my week long lean manufacturing study mission in Japan. For the last half of the week, I had virtual...

On our third day in Japan, we studied the lean manufacturing process at the TOTO facility in Kokura, Japan. TOTO is a hugely dominate manufa...

After a couple of days in Japan, my body is just now catching up to the radical time change shift and ready for the next lesson in lean from...

After the tour of the Toyota Motor Kyushu plant, our group headed to another factory in Southern Japan while there was still daylight to bur...

Here is a picture of Toyota's i-unit, car of the future, that was on display at the Kyushu automoble showroom . REALLY cool!

On our first manufacturing tour day in Japan, we wasted little time and proceeded directly to the pinnacle of lean manufacturing in the worl...

I landed in Japan last night after a 27 hours journey but only 16 hours in the air. Here is the cool view from my 21st floor hotel room of t...

I just discovered a new lean blog called Lean Insider . The Lean Insider is written by Ralph Bernstein at Productivity Press and blogs about...

On our lean journey, we must continuously improve and continuously learn. Check out the podcast interview with Dr Jeffrey Liker , author of ...

Check out Karl McCracken's cool lean articles at Team Leaders Resource Library . Excellent work by a fellow lean guy from the UK includi...

"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump. bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he k...

This afternoon, we completed another successful Kaizen 5-day event at an aerospace company in Indiana. The team was outstanding, the results...

Or more importantly, why do you allow your machines to continue leaking?