EVERYTHING…that’s all! By everything, I mean all the outcomes that we experience, good or bad, positive or negative. All outcomes are...

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky Gretzky was a singular hockey player, almost superhuman in his abilities....

Did you get that text from your most important manufacturing process? It said the process will “break” (yields plummeting with no obvious...

Each week this newsletter concentrates on the “science/art” of building Great Manufacturing Processes. Many times we discuss all the hard...

Building great manufacturing processes is the primary focus of this newsletter. The question I am trying to shed light on is “what’s the...

The concept of leverage is a very old one. 2,200 years ago, Archimedes of Syracuse said: “Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will...

Who talks about duty anymore, what an old-fashioned concept! However…I proffer that the concept of duty is still relevant and as vitally...

Opportunities are funny things. They are not visible: they are kind of vaporous and fleeting, and tricky to pin down real-time. However,...

Best practices are interesting because they point towards a “True North” that we can use to evaluate our current direction. Worst...

Today is day 199 of 2019. The year is 55% gone today. Tick-tock… How much have you improved your key processes in the first half of the...