Category Archives: made in america (3)

I’m just returning from a brief sojourn that included:

Before Shigeo Shingo’s chicken there was another well-known fowl by the name of “Chicken Little.” Do you remember the story? Struck on the head by a..

A thoughtful comment to my last post reminded me of one my favorite Shigeo Shingo stories. The writer, who will be at our upcoming conference,..

Gross numbers reflecting American productivity can be misleading. When American companies outsource production, the labor “expense” is replaced with..

America’s form of government, borne out of an ideal of freedom and equality, has, for all of our short-term criticisms, been the object of continuous..

In 1989, after four years of what could be called ala carte improvement, my factory was introduced to policy deployment by Deming Prize winner, Ryuji..

[The following post is actually the third and final episode of Dr. Shingo’s last visit to America. The first two episodes can be found on the Shingo..

I visited a company (actually this could be many companies) recently and noticed “7 Wastes” posters displayed prominently in every department...

I was listening to Alan Robinson present last week at the Lean Systems Summit about the power of “small ideas.” Alan wondered aloud why so many..

In December, I took my son, Ben, to an Edgar Winter concert at a Worcester, Mass theater. Do you remember Edgar Winter? A tall, lanky dude who in the..