Monthly Archives: June 2005
At Least Toyota & Hyundai Are Creating Jobs
GM Plans to Cut 25,000 U.S. Jobs by 2008 - Yahoo! News
I'm starting to get sick of beating up on GM. I hate...
Supplier Relationships in a Lean Enterprise
Standardized Work ChartsHere is the latest posting from Darren Dolcemascolo, who also publishes a lean email newsletter (and does lean consulting, as well)."First of...
More Siren Songs — Pelion Systems
Pelion Systems Advances Demand-Based Manufacturing With Enhanced Real-Time Resource Planning EngineThis is becoming quite the recurring theme (see here, here, and here). Lean lean...
Another Siren Song? More Funding for Factory Logic
$8M funding boost - 2005-06-06
Another "siren song" of software? For those not following this line of posts, also see this article on i2 and...
Overproduction of Milk Supported by Taxpayers
Bovine Growth Hormone:One of the seven /eight forms of waste (per Toyota) is Overproduction. It's frustrating to me that the U.S. government supports overproduction...
Economist says China not eating Mexico’s lunch
Brownsville HeraldIt's interesting to see and think about the chase for low-cost labor... conventional wisdom is that manufacturers have chased cheap labor to Mexico,...
Toyota Assembly Line Inspires Improvements at Hospital
Washington Post (via MSNBC):Another example of the waste-filled health care system adopting TPS methods and approaches:"In adopting the Toyota mind-set, Kaplan said, the 350-bed...
Will Dell, GE and Wal-Mart Replace Toyota as the Standard of Efficiency and Excellence?
Evolving Excellence: (Superfactory Blog)Thought provoking post from the Superfactory blog. The blogger asks the question "Has Toyota become an "old" benchmark for modern-day...
Limits on imports save jobs overseas
USATODAY.com
We'll chalk this one up in the "unintended consequences" category. This shows how tough it can be for governments to restrict trade.
The...
Quest for Best Seller Means Lots of Returned Books
Article: Wall St. Journal via Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Wow, here's a messed up Value Stream.
Book publishers end up taking back and destroying (or heavily...
Toyota Has Most Efficient Plant in N.A., Harbour Report Says
Toyota Has Most Efficient Plant in N.A., Harbour Report Says:Click "comments" to see my thoughts and possibly add your own.""'Toyota's labor productivity lead equates...
Companies Use Lean to Offset Cost Increases
IndustryWeek : Under Pressure:This ties directly to the Toyota article from the other day and the concept of Profit = Price - Cost. The...
