Monthly Archives: January 2007
To Merge or Not To Merge… Lean & TPS?
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...
Toyota’s Factory Medical Center
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » In-house Health ClinicsTip of the hat to John for finding this article about companies bringing some doctor...
Healthy Addictions
I was working in my home office this morning, about 9 AM. It's icy, cold, rainy here in Texas. It was below...
Calling DFW or Texas Lean Companies
Personal request -- I'm looking for a Dallas/Fort Worth area company that is in an advanced state of lean implementation. (that's quite a flexible...
WSJ Interviews LaSorda
Tom LaSorda Plebeian Prince (WSJ)Here is a new interview with Chrysler's Tom LaSorda, a lean leader who has been featured often here on the...
What’s On Toyota’s Mind?
Thanks to Pete for findng this and sending it my way. This link takes you to an animation thats apparently produced for Toyota...
The 5S Workplace: Cause or Effect?
By Dan Markovitz, Time Back Management:A response to an earlier post...Is messiness really beneficial?I think the authors of A Perfect Mess make a silly...
Ford Folks Finally Reading TPS Books?
Teaming up may aid Ford, ToyotaAnother article about potential collaboration between Ford and Toyota. One tidbit:The grapevine buzz has it that the former...
Why Clean Your Desk? Is This 5S?
Why Clean Up Your Desk? Delight in Disorder Instead (WSJ $$)What does a clean desk have to do with 5S? It depends. ...
Kanban for Shared Resource
By Jean Cunningham:Normally when I think of Kanban, I think of external Kanban between the manufacturing cell and the external supplier. However, kanban...
How Do You Say "Lean" in Swedish?
By Dan Markovitz, Timeback Management:The McKinsey Quarterly just published an interview with Peter Gossas, the president of Stockholm-based Sandvik Materials Technology, a leading producer...
ThedaCare Continues the Lean Journey
ThedaCare program gets boostThedaCare has already been seen as a leader in applying lean to hospitals, but its good to see they are continuing...
