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Essays

Commentary on Lean, Manufacturing, and Life in General

These essays and columns are not all about Lean Manufacturing, but reflect my general views on manufacturing, and my "irrational exuberance" for life. I hope you enjoy them.

• Quality in a Lean World

  How does Lean Manufacturing relate to Quality? Quality Manager and 6-Sigma Black Belt Bob Loose explains that Lean & Quality dovetail quite nicely.



• Lean Accounting: Novel Number Crunching

  Lean Accounting is not nearly as widely known as other aspects of Lean. It was the last piece of Lean that I learned, and it filled a huge "missing piece" in my Lean education. This article from Business Week magazine quotes an old colleague of mine and explains the power of Lean accounting in a world dominated (and sometimes destroyed) by "Standard Cost" accounting.



• Nattering Nabobs of Negativity

  Is the world going to heck? Of course! We all know that civilization has been "declining" for 10,000 years. Yet somehow we're still here and our lives are getting better. Hmmmm....



• Robert Heinlein's "What I Believe"

  A short and simple statement of faith in ourselves and our fellow man. I wish I had written this...



• Disappearing Manufacturing Jobs

  Manufacturing jobs are going to China. Is this because manufacturing is in "decline"? Or is it because we have been successful in taking costs out of manufacturing?