Monthly Archives: December 2006
Your Lean Year in Review
Happy New Year!As 2006 ends, I hope many of you had a GREAT lean year. Please add your comments about your lean accomplishments...
Waste in Collecting Tolls
TxDOT to motorists: Pay up even if tolls are tinyI've heard economists say that tolls roads are a very inefficient way of collecting taxes...
Quality is Free in Healthcare?
Hospital cost, quality are at oddsIn the manufacturing world, the old "mass production" thinking said there was a tradeoff in cost and quality, that...
IW Webcast: Lean Tools
Here's an Industry Week webcast that promotes:Six Sigma, Lean, or Kaizen? Using the Right Tool for the Right ProblemI hope they will also cover...
Lean Blog Carnival
Kevin Meyer used to do a lean "blog carnival", so maybe it's now my turn. There are many great blogs out there and...
Revolutionizing Manufacturing with Software: A Discussion on Lean Principles with Dave Gleditsch – LeanBlog...
LeanBlog Podcast #14 is a discussion with Dave Gleditsch, the Chief Technology Officer for Pelion Systems, a leading provider of software for lean manufacturing...
Lean Blog Challenge Contest Winner
Here's the winner of the Lean Blog Challenge Contest. Congratulations to Rich, the winner of an MP3 player pre-loaded with the first 13...
Lean is not "Mean"
For a lean, mean machineHere's another journalistically-lazy reference to "lean and mean," this time in an announcement for an Intro to Lean seminar in...
Ford’s Mulally meets with Toyota
NY Times: Ford and Toyota Chiefs Met in Tokyo
MSNBC: Ford's Mulally signals co-operation with Toyota
In the NY Times today... apparently they fired up Mark...
More on Mulally’s "First Impressions"
Here's what jumped out at me from Friday's WSJ articles on Alan Mulally: his "war room" and his "first impressions." (both articles require...
Mulally’s Early Lean Leadership at Ford
By Dan Markovitz, Timeback Management(Mark's note... Dan has been a unofficial, yet very welcome, contributor to the blog for a few weeks now. ...
Error-Proofing Enhances Quality
Society of Manufacturing EngineersCatching up on some old links and articles I never did get around to publishing... here's a good overview of...