I would have sworn it was no more than three or four weeks since my last post.  Time goes fast.

As to why the long gap, I wrote a couple of articles for trade magazines about my client, Talan Products.  (Here's the article in MetalForming, and here's the other in Fabricating and Metalworking.  By the way, I'll be writing a regular column on lean manufacturing for F and M that starts in May so keep going to the site to check those out.)  I've also been preparing a presentation for Industry Week's Best Plants Conference here in Cleveland, again about Talan Products and the manner by which it chose and uses lean metrics.  I'll also be making a presentation down in Columbus at the ASQ regional meeting there next month.  In the midst of all that, I made a presentation to the Case Western Operations Management Club and have been active on the AME group over on LinkedIn.

So, even though I haven't been posting here enough, I've been working to get the word out.