NUMMI Tour Tales #6: "You Get What You Inspect" Mark Graban Nov 10, 2005 1 Blog Here is the sixth, and probably final, installment of my tales from the NUMMI tour. You can revisit them, by…
NUMMI Tour Tales #5: Nobody is Perfect Mark Graban Nov 2, 2005 3 Blog NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop While the NUMMI plant would score very highly on any measure of "Visual…
NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop Mark Graban Oct 31, 2005 1 Blog NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The…
NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why Mark Graban Oct 27, 2005 6 Blog NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap I think, by now, that…
NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap Mark Graban Oct 26, 2005 5 Blog NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? The NUMMI tour guide told an interesting kaizen story as we went past…
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? Mark Graban Oct 25, 2005 26 Blog I really enjoyed my tour of the NUMMI plant last Friday. I'll post my summary thoughts and impressions from the…
Touring NUMMI on Friday Mark Graban Oct 21, 2005 1 I'm getting a chance to tour the NUMMI plant in Fremont CA, the joint venture between Toyota and General Motors.…
Tatsuro Toyoda, Former Head of NUMMI, President of Toyota, Passes Away at 88 Mark Graban Jan 9, 2018 0 Blog Yesterday, I saw this headline from the Associated Press: "Tatsuro Toyoda, former head of Toyota, dies at 88"…
Podcast #259 – Steve Bera, Reflections on NUMMI and #Lean, Part 2 Mark Graban Aug 9, 2016 2 Blog Today's episode #259 is Part 2 of a discussion I started with Steve Bera in episode #256. Steve was one of the!-->!-->!-->…
Podcast #256 – Steve Bera, Reflections on NUMMI and #Lean, Part 1 Mark Graban Jul 19, 2016 2 Blog I'm really excited to have Steve Bera as my guest for episode #256 of the podcast. I read about him as he was!-->!-->!-->…
Throwback Thursday: “This American Life” on NUMMI Lessons,… Mark Graban Jul 23, 2015 1 Audio Episode #403 of the public radio program "This American Life" originally aired in 2010, telling the story of the…
Videos Look Inside the Tesla (former NUMMI) Factory – Will They Be More like… Mark Graban Dec 31, 2013 4 Blog I was able to tour the NUMMI factory in 2005, which I really enjoyed (see my series of blog posts here). NUMMI was,…
Looking Ahead to a Toyota Tour by Looking Back Mark Graban Sep 13, 2010 2 Blog I'm excited that I have a chance, on Wednesday, to tour the Toyota plant in San Antonio, TX. I'm going with a "Lean…
Breaking: GM Dumps NUMMI Partnership with Toyota Mark Graban Jun 29, 2009 10 Blog After 25 years, GM ditches NUMMI tie-up with Toyota In the news this afternoon: PRESS RELEASE: 2009-06-29 GM…
NUMMI Employee Says Plant Hides Defects Mark Graban Nov 20, 2007 15 Blog Whistleblower says defects hidden at Toyota-GM Calif. plant Ironically enough, while on the topic of not…
Notes from a Toyota Georgetown Tour Mark Graban Jul 24, 2006 2 Blog Construction Executive Lessons from the Toyota Visit :: Reforming Project ManagementGreat post on the Reforming…
NUMMI and Worker Health Mark Graban Mar 9, 2006 2 Blog Inside Bay Area - IBA - Alameda Times-Star - HomeHere's a pretty glowing article about how NUMMI, the Toyota/GM…
Nice NUMMI Article Mark Graban Mar 7, 2006 0 Inside Bay Area - IBA - Tri-Valley Herald - Local NewsHere's an article about the Toyota-GM joint venture plant…