The Bottleneck Many years ago I worked alongside a machinist who ran the same routine every day.  He followed the same setup sequence and made the same checks at the same intervals. To anyone watching casually, it looked like he was just going through the motions.  But what they missed was that h...

THE BOTTLENECK I walked into a facility a few years back where the production schedule was posted on a whiteboard in the middle of the floor. Clean. Color-coded. Updated every Monday. The manager was proud of it, and honestly, it looked sharp. By Wednesday of that week, the team was already 18% b...