Comments on: The Machine That Changed the World http://www.leanblog.org/2006/08/machine-that-changed-world/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:59:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Call for Questions: Upcoming Womack Podcast — Lean Blog http://www.leanblog.org/2006/08/machine-that-changed-world/#comment-22819 Call for Questions: Upcoming Womack Podcast — Lean Blog Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:27:53 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2006/08/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/#comment-22819 [...] Here is a retrospective on the book by Jamie Flinchbaugh. [...] [...] Here is a retrospective on the book by Jamie Flinchbaugh. [...]

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]]> By: Jamie Flinchbaugh http://www.leanblog.org/2006/08/machine-that-changed-world/#comment-942 Jamie Flinchbaugh Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:08:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2006/08/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/#comment-942 Mike,<br/><br/>Great comments. First, GM has made a lot of progress in manufacturing. If you go into a plant today versus 15 years ago, they are worlds apart. They quality isn't really that bad (Buick is #3 or 4 I think) and cost, productivity and other metrics look good. Unfortunately, you can't just have a good plant.<br/><br/>Also, a great number of good people have left, or been kicked out, of GM and Ford. The brain drain on the industry is staggering and may be the single biggest problem worth solving. Mike,

Great comments. First, GM has made a lot of progress in manufacturing. If you go into a plant today versus 15 years ago, they are worlds apart. They quality isn’t really that bad (Buick is #3 or 4 I think) and cost, productivity and other metrics look good. Unfortunately, you can’t just have a good plant.

Also, a great number of good people have left, or been kicked out, of GM and Ford. The brain drain on the industry is staggering and may be the single biggest problem worth solving.

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]]> By: Mike http://www.leanblog.org/2006/08/machine-that-changed-world/#comment-941 Mike Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:24:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2006/08/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/#comment-941 At the time, I was struck by the similarities between what the book portrayed and the Japanese transplant I work for, but also by how far we had to go to be in the same league as Toyota. This was one of the first books I encountered on this subject and I followed it up with 3 or 4 books by Dr. Shingo, including that awful "Green Book."<br/><br/>I'm struck by two thinks from your post--how long GM has been trying to learn lean and failing (despite the comments of Shawn from DTE Energy), and how many people who became excited about lean left GM and the other companies of the "Big Three." What does that tell us? At the time, I was struck by the similarities between what the book portrayed and the Japanese transplant I work for, but also by how far we had to go to be in the same league as Toyota. This was one of the first books I encountered on this subject and I followed it up with 3 or 4 books by Dr. Shingo, including that awful “Green Book.”

I’m struck by two thinks from your post–how long GM has been trying to learn lean and failing (despite the comments of Shawn from DTE Energy), and how many people who became excited about lean left GM and the other companies of the “Big Three.” What does that tell us?

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