Monthly Archives: December 2005
More on the Toyota Cost/Profit Model
Evolving Excellence: Its About Cost, Stupid!Great post here by Bill Waddell about the Toyota "Profit/Cost" model ofProfit = Price - Cost. He elaborates...
Project Kaizen: Improving Workgroups
Today's topic for the Project Kaizen group blogging effort is kaizen for a "workgroup," with that being defined as "making improvements for sub-team members...
SOX costs $6.1 billion in 2005
What a huge opportunity to implement some lean thinking! According to a report issued November 29 by AMR Research, SOX compliance cost $6.1...
Kitchen Lean: Standardized Oatmeal?
I'm often challenged by people (including my wife sometimes), "why don't you apply lean concepts at home, Mr. Lean?" I haven't shadowed my kitchen...
Jim Womack: "Mr. Ford’s Wrong Turn"
Mr. Ford's Wrong Turn
From yesterday's Washington Post, an opinion column by Jim Womack. Womack counters an assertion by Ford CEO Bill Ford that...
The Case for Project Kaizen
Here is my posting for the Monday "Project Kaizen" group blogging effort, the topic being "Why Project Kaizen?"--------------------------Why wouldn't the concept of "kaizen", or...
Lean for Factories, Lean for Hospitals
Local manufacturer touts lean procedures - 2005-12-01Here's an article from Charlotte NC that mentions lean success stories in a factory and a local hospital....
Project Kaizen Co-Blogging Week
Project Kaizen Co-Blogging Themes :: Reforming Project ManagementStarting Monday, I will be joining a group of lean thinkers and bloggers who will be writing...
Where’s the Innovation in closing plants?
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Ford's North American restructuring plan will include closing 5 plants and eliminating 6% of it's workforce....
End of the Saturn Dream, or "United We Stand?"
Lofty Promise of Saturn Plant Runs Into G.M.'s Fiscal Reality - New York TimesThis is so sad. It also reminds me of when...
Lean and Outsourcing
By Mark Edmondson Bill Waddell's post on Evolving Excellence makes a humorous yet tragic point about how lean is too often confused with outsourcing....
Great Week on the Blog, Looking Ahead to Next
Hello, blog readers, just a quick update here. It's been an exciting week on the Lean Manufacturing Blog. Thanks to being included...
