Chrysler Extending Plant Closures Over Christmas in Bid to Shrink Inventory: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance We read this morning in the WSJ about how Chrysler had the largest per-vehicle incentives ($4000) in the industry. It really seems like the…
IndustryWeek : Lean Improvement: What To Tackle First Here is the 2nd part of a two-part Industry Week series by Dave Gleditsch, the Chief Technology Officer at Pelion Systems, and an upcoming Podcast guest. I have the podcast recorded, just…
Honey, You Shouldn’t Have – WSJ.com Update: I was probably wrong on this one (see here). You see the ads for Lexus with the cars with red bows on top, the ultimate Christmas gift, right? It’s really the result of…
Hospitals prescribe increased reimbursements from insurers to aid recovery of sickly health care system Hospitals need to learn to reduce costs. You can’t just ask for more money to cover your rising costs. It’s a frequent topic on this blog,…
Manufacturing overhaul will help Boeing avoid bottlenecks – MarketWatch Here’s a Wall St. analyst who is actually high on their lean efforts: “The key behind lean manufacturing is not just the margin improvement, but the fact that you can produce…
Sturm, Ruger to offer buyouts I’ve been getting entries in the “Lean Challenge” contest and read about this challenge online. We all talk about how lean shouldn’t drive layoffs. But what happens when you free up head count and can’t…
LeanBlog Podcast #13 brings us part 2 of our discussion with James P. Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute, the author of many books, including the classic (published 10 years ago) Lean Thinking and the more recent Lean Solutions. Part…
TWI Summit to Help Redeploy the Long Forgotten Training Within Industry Program Here is some info about Jim Huntzinger’s upcoming TWI Summit. You can check out my earlier podcast with him about Lean Accounting. I also have another podcast recorded…
Lean manufacturing initiatives increase efficiencies at Moyno Here’s a glowing news report about how lean is helping a manufacturing company. Who knows if it’s just the scope of the article or if the company is ONLY doing 5S work. Lean…
by Jamie Flinchbaugh I’m not sure if this has much to do with lean, other than to say that business leaders are needed to make lean work. My friend Randy Pinkett who last year won Donald Trump’s The Apprentice has…
Toyota poised to get GM’s top spot | The Japan Times Online: Analysts thought it might be 2006, but now 2007? “Analysts say 2007 could be the year Japan’s top automaker overtakes General Motors Corp. as the world’s top-selling carmaker.”…
The Capital Times Follow up to this original story: Thao was initially charged in the case with a felony count of causing great bodily harm to a patient by negligence, a charge which came after an investigation by the State…
