Trucks and Trucking Photos
“The little four-wheelers live on risk. They endanger themselves. They endangered us. If you’re in a big truck, they’re around […]
Month: July 2009
Shipping Container Photos
Containers, cargo, ports, ships, industry… all that gray, steamy, rusty, stinky but at the same time fascinating stuff. If you […]
A cynic’s view of Lean Six Sigma
The Scratching Post has a jaded but honest collection of views of how movements become evil or how half enlightened fanatics can […]
Fractal Project Management
by Dave Jenkins So, we’ve all disparaged Waterfall software development as overly cumbersome and simply undoable in today’s go-go world. Agile came […]
Green and Lean
Combining the questions of green and sustainability with the application of lean thinking to supply chain and logistics I offer these current […]
Green Intentions
Hot off the press, written by plant manager Brett Wills, with first hand experience on the challenges faced trying to move an […]
Green or Green Washed?
Green or Green Washed? 7 Lessons in Green Supply Chain in China By Rebeca Kanthor Ma Jun is one of China’s most […]
Optimizing the Green Supply Chain
Be proactive or wait until you are forced, it’s your choice. LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru has capability to map and model […]
Kanban in 10 Steps
Kanban isn’t always the right answer or even possible. But when it is and makes sense here’s what to do; a simple […]
Walter Shewhart
Dr. Shewhart was a prominent scientist with the Western Electric Engineering Department back in the 1920s. In 1924, Dr. Shewhart devised a […]
Frederick Taylor
Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915), American industrial engineer, who originated scientific management in business. He was born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), […]