Monthly Archives: September 2005

A "Kinder and Gentler" Lean Supply Base?

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USATODAY.com - Ford will use fewer suppliers in attempt to cut costs:The Gemba Pantarei blog also has some good comments on this story about...

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

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Curious Cat Management Improvement BlogOK, so it doesn't seem very lean for a blog to link to a blog that's linked to an article....

Coming Soon: Special Q&A with Womack and Jones

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UPDATE: It's finally here, part 1 of the Q&AHello blog readers. I'm very excited. I have been promised a Q&A session with the...

Can America make it? We can’t lose our factories

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DesMoinesRegister.com Here is an editorial from the Des Moines Register newspaper, prompted by the planned closure of the Maytag plant in Newton Iowa, previously featured...

Toyota also says "Beat Toyota"

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Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta ReiAnother good post from the Panta Rei lean blog on quality and perceptions of today's Toyota,...

Reopened coffee plant brightens up a devastated city

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Reopened coffee plant brightens up a devastated city - Business - International Herald Tribune: This isn't really a lean article, per se, but if...

Free Excerpts from "Lean Solutions"

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Library - Lean Solutions Details The LEI has kindly made pdf files available for download: Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2. Please...

"Lean Solutions" Now Shipping from Amazon

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Also available directly (autographed copies) through the LEI (www.lean.org)I'm really looking forward to reading this. I'll get a review posted ASAP and encourage...

"Infinite Cost Reductions"?

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asahi.com:Rises in efficiency reduce factory personnel - ENGLISH:From the article:"Toyota Motor Corp., one of the nation's most profitable and efficient manufacturers, is leading the...

Toyota Wins on Engine Production Metric, Is That What Matters?

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Toyota plant retains fastest engine making titleI started my career at a GM V-8 engine plant in the mid 90's. "Hours per Engine" was...

Toyota Training for New Plant

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MySA.com: BusinessNotice how Toyota is training their new Group Leaders (2nd level manufacturing managers). They are going to the Indiana plant and learning the...

GM Oshawa says "Beat Toyota"

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The Globe and Mail: In the boardroom at the General Motors Oshawa plant is a baseball bat. Two words are carved on it: Beat...