From today’s Automotive News (not freely available online): Industrial engineers trained in the fine points of Japanese manufacturing are about to descend on some Nissan dealerships. Their goal: teach retailers an industrial practice called “standardized work,” an auto factory method…
I’ve been wondering for a while what the value of my CPIM certification is (a previous employer paid for it). APICS has been trying to reinvent itself as more of a lean organization rather than just being an MRP methodology…
LeanBlog Podcast #16 is the first part of two with Jim Baran, the Owner of Value Stream Leadership, a leading recruiting firm that specializes in Lean talent. I’ve known Jim for a few years now and he’s helped me and…
By Bill Hanover of ThroughPut Solutions It was proposed on Wikipedia (an open source online encyclopedia that anyone can edit,) that the main article regarding “Lean Manufacturing” should be merged with the main article regarding “The Toyota Production System.” Maybe…
