Well, the Lions almost did it. The offence was ugly, painful for even the most die hard of Lions fans to stomach. The defense was sensational however, and they were able to keep the team in the game right up…
MercuryNews.com | 10/16/2005 | Electronics maker Solectron adopts Toyota’s laser-like focus on perpetual improvement Here is another story about Solectron’s lean journey. The phrase “perpetual improvement” struck me. The phrase “continuous improvement”, of course, is the commonly used term. I…
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 is here. What’s amazing to me is that baseball umpires are given so much personal…
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 around. Here, they have a collection of factory type urban legends about people at the…
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 5 second takt times, then eventually 2.5 second takt times. Well, they don’t say “takt.”…
You may have noticed in the post below that we have a new posting member of the Lean Manufacturing Blog, Luke. We have a mutual acquaintence in the lean world and I’ve invited him to contribute to the blog. He…
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 I found particularly interesting. Industry Competitiveness: Where Do We Stand? At the very outset of the…
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, for all of its high-minded goals and purpose, is in business to make money. “The Toyota…
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 3” combined). More interesting was this statement in Toyota’s most recent annual report. If you want…
Detroit Free Press One plant in San Antonio, set to open in 2006, now the new one in Canada has broken ground. States are still wooing Toyota for the next plant that will be announced for further growth. It’s amazing…
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 accounting is quite long, that’s why it takes up to 48 hours to get. Once they…
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 Ohno being inspired by the ready availability of goods at an American supermarket and that being…
