Monthly Archives: November 2005
Perspective on Wal-Mart and China
WSJ.com - Business WorldI know it's popular to say that Wal-Mart is killing U.S. manufacturing because of its insistence in driving manufacturers to China.Here...
Exclusive Q&A with Jim Womack Part 3
Here is installment #3 in my exclusive Q&A with Jim Womack, co-author of Lean Solutions along with Daniel Jones. Here, Jim discusses more Lean...
USA Today summary of Lean Solutions
USATODAY.com - Efficiency can solve a host of problems
From yesterday's USA Today.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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Visual Controls Example at Starbucks
I liked seeing this at my local Starbucks. As they sell whole bean coffee and bags are removed, you can see stickers that have...
Lean Manufacturing Planning System
Link to PaperI found this great paper on the web. Though I could not find a date on it, I see a lot of...
A Border Guard’s Perspective on Quality
A story from a friend in Detroit:I was crossing the border from Michigan into Ontario, both places where a lot of cars are manufactured....
Exclusive Q&A With Jim Womack, Part 2
Thanks again to Jim Womack for his participation. In the next few installments, we'll move into questions about America's manufacturing competitiveness, Dell Computer, and...
How to get more than 100 percent — ask Toyota
Columnist Doron Levin
Interesting quote, about the power of small improvements:
"Toyota just saves and saves in a million little ways and then uses that money...
Exclusive Q&A With Jim Womack, Part 1
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
New Q&A February 2006
Be sure to see all five parts of the Q&A,...
Toyota, others steer clear of unions
MySA.com : Printer Friendly StoryFrom the same newspaper that brings you "The sun is hot" on the weather page. Don't get me wrong,...
Poor hospital processes may have killed man
MercuryNews.com | 11/02/2005 | Medical mistake may have killed manIt is really sad when errors like this occur, it happens far too often in...
NUMMI Tour Tales #5: Nobody is Perfect
NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop
While the NUMMI plant would score very highly on any measure of "Visual Management" standards, you can...
