PACCAR Achieves Solid Third Quarter Sales and Profits: Lean success at PACCAR, from their quarterly announcement: “Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing Add Savings and Increase Capacity “PACCAR’s application of Six Sigma tools together with Lean Manufacturing techniques have realized cumulative…
In the October 29, 2007 issue of FORTUNE, there is their weekly “How I Work” segment that profiles and/or glorifies an executive. This time it is Bobby Kotick, CEO of videogame maker Activision. They’ve evolved from Atari 2600 “tapes,” to…
Roger Penske adds the Smart car to his $17B empire – Oct. 5, 2007 Good article here about businessman Roger Penske. I didn’t realize that he once passed up the chance to succeed Iaccoca at Chrysler. Back in 1992, Chrysler’s…
Today is my birthday, as Rob pointed out in a comment a few days back (thanks to “social networking” sites that I’ve shared that info with). My point isn’t to solicit a bunch of “happy birthday” greetings (but I’ll accept…
I’ve mentioned this book before, coming out Nov 1, it’s called How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest Car Company. I had the exciting chance to have dinner tonight with the author, David Magee. I have, in…
General Dynamics workers laid off – SWVAToday.com It’s been a while since a Lean As Mistakenly Executed (L.A.M.E.) sighting. Or, in other words, stuff that gives Lean a bad name: About 45 General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products employees in…
Postbulletin.com: Harvey Mackay: Work for the love of it all – Mon, Oct 15, 2007 For all of the complaining we do about the airlines and for all of the lousy attitudes we often run across, here’s a positive story…
Thanks to a Lean Blog reader, Matt, for sending this first-hand account. I’m sorry he (and his wife) had to go through this experience. This is posted with his permission. I’ll buck convention a bit and put my comments in…
I can’t say this is strictly Lean related, but I thought this was funny and I’ll share it anyway. So I’m at the airport terminal in Edmonton on Thursday, waiting to fly home and saw this one (and only) food…
SaukValley.com – Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls: Here’s a news story about career day at a High School and someone talking about Lean (I guess Wahl, the clipper company, is using Lean): “‘Poka yoke … allows you to dummy-proof…
Business Week Article Here is a new article from Business Week, which also focuses on the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest Car Company. I’m going to have a chance to meet the author,…
I saw this ad (click on the photo for a larger, readable view) in the Wall Street Journal Monday. It’s an ad run by a patient advocacy organization called “RID” (Reduce Infection Deaths). The headline is “15 Steps You Can…