Monthly Archives: December 2006

Your Lean Year in Review

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Happy New Year!As 2006 ends, I hope many of you had a GREAT lean year. Please add your comments about your lean accomplishments...

Waste in Collecting Tolls

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TxDOT to motorists: Pay up even if tolls are tinyI've heard economists say that tolls roads are a very inefficient way of collecting taxes...

Quality is Free in Healthcare?

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Hospital cost, quality are at oddsIn the manufacturing world, the old "mass production" thinking said there was a tradeoff in cost and quality, that...

IW Webcast: Lean Tools

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Here's an Industry Week webcast that promotes:Six Sigma, Lean, or Kaizen? Using the Right Tool for the Right ProblemI hope they will also cover...

Lean Blog Carnival

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Kevin Meyer used to do a lean "blog carnival", so maybe it's now my turn. There are many great blogs out there and...

Revolutionizing Manufacturing with Software: A Discussion on Lean Principles with Dave Gleditsch – LeanBlog...

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LeanBlog Podcast #14 is a discussion with Dave Gleditsch, the Chief Technology Officer for Pelion Systems, a leading provider of software for lean manufacturing...

Lean Blog Challenge Contest Winner

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Here's the winner of the Lean Blog Challenge Contest. Congratulations to Rich, the winner of an MP3 player pre-loaded with the first 13...

Lean is not "Mean"

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For a lean, mean machineHere's another journalistically-lazy reference to "lean and mean," this time in an announcement for an Intro to Lean seminar in...

Ford’s Mulally meets with Toyota

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NY Times: Ford and Toyota Chiefs Met in Tokyo MSNBC: Ford's Mulally signals co-operation with Toyota In the NY Times today... apparently they fired up Mark...

More on Mulally’s "First Impressions"

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Here's what jumped out at me from Friday's WSJ articles on Alan Mulally: his "war room" and his "first impressions." (both articles require...

Mulally’s Early Lean Leadership at Ford

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By Dan Markovitz, Timeback Management(Mark's note... Dan has been a unofficial, yet very welcome, contributor to the blog for a few weeks now. ...

Error-Proofing Enhances Quality

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Society of Manufacturing EngineersCatching up on some old links and articles I never did get around to publishing... here's a good overview of...