Tag: Manufacturing

Lean for Small Businesses in Rockford IL

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Rockford Register Star | Web site of the Rock River ValleyHere's a small case study from Rockford IL:For Leading Edge, a 120-employee shop that...

"The Last Days of a Low-Tech Factory"

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U.S. hanger factories lose out to Chinese manufacturers - March 5, 2007: "This isn't a Lean article, just an article that caught my eye...

Cleaning out the Lean Blog Backlog

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I'll probably start this as a weekly or monthly feature, publishing the links and articles that I tuck aside as "drafts" but never end...

Lean Success Stories in the Dakotas!

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Dakota MEP : Success StoriesThanks to blog reader Justin for sending this my way. In fact, if you ever have Lean stories that would...

Lean Could Have Helped Hershey

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New Haven Register - Bitter EndingThanks to Lean Blog reader Tom for sending this my way, sad story that it is.Hershey's candy is moving...

Always Room For Improvement

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I had an internal factory tour that reminded me of Mark's recent blog on the Not So Lean Factory Tour. The plant was not...

Not such a "Lean" Plant Tour

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Since I've been working exclusively in healthcare for almost two years, I haven't been in too many factories lately. I was excited to...

Expert Interview: Kevin Meyer on Driving Lean Transformation and Onshoring |...

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The LeanBlog Podcast is back with episode #20, our guest is Kevin Meyer, the founder of Superfactory Ventures, which can be found at Superfactory.com....

GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers to...

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Following up on my post about my recent experience with metrics and processes being distorted (and my less-than-perfect Lean coaching efforts), I was thinking...

A Dynamo Called Danaher

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Business Week I don't think the Danaher story is such a secret to those of us in the Lean world, but Business Week has discovered...

A Lean, Sign-Making Machine

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Century Sign Builders is a Lean, green machine - MSNBC.comHere is a nice case study news story about a small sign making company that...

Lean Suits Story on NPR

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NPR : Suit Maker Goes 'Lean' to Keep Jobs in U.S.I'll comment more on this later, but this was on NPR this morning. ...
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