Monthly Archives: October 2005
Exiting Ford Field – The Implication of Design on Flow
Well, the Lions almost did it. The offence was ugly, painful for even the most die hard of Lions fans to stomach. ...
"Perptual Improvement" for Solectron
MercuryNews.com | 10/16/2005 | Electronics maker Solectron adopts Toyota's laser-like focus on perpetual improvementHere is another story about Solectron's lean journey. The phrase "perpetual...
Standard Work for Baseball Umpires??
Ump Reflects on Controversial ALCS Call:
If you don't know now what happened at the end of the Angels/White Sox game two, the game story...
Blue Collar Urban Legends
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Blue Collar Innovation)
The snopes.com website is the authoritative source for urban legends and debunking those internet rumors that go...
5 Second Takt Time for New Dell Plant
BetterProcess Podcast and Blog: PC every 5 seconds...
Thanks to the BetterProcess blog for this article. The new Dell factory in NC is talking about...
Luke, Welcome to the Blog
You may have noticed in the post below that we have a new posting member of the Lean Manufacturing Blog, Luke. We have...
Industry Competitiveness: Where Do We Stand?
Here's an interesting editorial commenting on the position of the US in the latest Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum that...
Profit Comparison – Toyota vs. "Big 3"
I was pulling this data together for a lean overview presentation that I'm doing. This quote, from a Toyota handbook, helps illustrate that Toyota,...
Toyota’s Basic Management Policy
I was looking for some annual financial numbers for Toyota, for comparison to Ford and GM (Toyota's annual profit is more than the "Big...
Ground broken for Toyota plant in Ontario
Detroit Free PressOne plant in San Antonio, set to open in 2006, now the new one in Canada has broken ground. States are...
"The Queue is Quite Long"
That's the story I get from my corporate travel office, trying to get a copy of an invoice for a flight. "The queue for...
Supermarket Supply Issues
No, I don't buy baby food, but happened to stumble down this aisle at the local grocery store. This picture reminds me of Taiichi...
