Month July 2005

Is Your Mediocrity an Emergency?

Seth’s Blog: The Mediocre Emergency While Seth Godin is mainly a marketing guru, I like his provocative thoughts. From a lean manufacturing perspective, is it easier to “fix” a factory that has an emergency (such as imminent plant closing) than…

American moves up at Toyota

Detroit Free Press This is significant, in addition to an American, Gary Convis, running the Georgetown plant in Kentucky. “It’s not coincidental when Toyota is finally trumpeting its presence in American culture, claiming to be as American as any of…

Lear seeks cuts, cheap labor

Detroit Free Press: “Southfield-based Lear Corp., which employs 9,400 workers in Michigan and about 100,000 more worldwide, fired its second warning flare this year on Monday that it will cut jobs and do more of its business in countries where…

Toyota plant nearly done

Toyota plant nearly done Short update on the truck plant in San Antonio. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark Graban. , , , on…