The Lean Insider

One of the more intriguing applications of lean I encountered recently – one I had not come across before – is “lean railroading.”          ...

Do you wonder why automakers no longer have models that sell hundreds of thousands of units? It’s because the world has changed, and you nee...

Industry Week magazine has announced the 10 winners of this year’s Best Plants awards. It’s a diverse group of manufacturing sites in the U...

One of the strangest questions I’ve heard in a long time came from a conference speaker who asked, “Are we doing lean with the wrong compani...

I suspect many people outside manufacturing still believe that a factory job involves unskilled labor and doesn’t require much education.   ...

A small number of venture capital funds with a lean focus have been around for a while. Now there’s another one – in Vietnam , of all places...

If you’re an industrial engineer with lean skills who is retired, unemployed or just looking for something different, maybe you should consi...

The most annoying part of the debate about lean versus six sigma is that those arguing often put it in terms of good versus bad, or right ve...

            The U.S. Department of Transportation has made reducing traffic congestion a new priority – and there’s a chance their efforts m...

            The headline above is a bit dramatic and probably sounds like hype. But if I am correctly interpreting the latest news from the ...