How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur I read this book over the weekend, here is the review I wrote for Amazon.com: This is a book that’s needed publishing for quite some time. Most lean books…
The Standard – The great mall of China – Opinion Section: Interesting view into the growth of malls in China. This excerpt from the article talks about the flow of goods back and forth, the U.S. shipping scrap materials to…
Seth’s Blog: The Mediocre Emergency While Seth Godin is mainly a marketing guru, I like his provocative thoughts. From a lean manufacturing perspective, is it easier to “fix” a factory that has an emergency (such as imminent plant closing) than…
Click Here for Free Link The main point of the article is that, on freeways, attempts by individual drivers to go faster (changing lanes, etc.) can slow down traffic overall, causing more individuals to change lanes, leading to a downward…
Detroit Free Press This is significant, in addition to an American, Gary Convis, running the Georgetown plant in Kentucky. “It’s not coincidental when Toyota is finally trumpeting its presence in American culture, claiming to be as American as any of…
Detroit Free Press: “Southfield-based Lear Corp., which employs 9,400 workers in Michigan and about 100,000 more worldwide, fired its second warning flare this year on Monday that it will cut jobs and do more of its business in countries where…
Toyota plant nearly done Short update on the truck plant in San Antonio. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark Graban. , , , on…
Henry Ford’s Lean Vision Here is a summary and information about a book that outlines how Henry Ford provided much of the inspiration and knowledge that became the basis of the Toyota Production System. I like to use this Ford…
Xinhua – English As reported before, labor shortages in China, believe it or not. Or, at the least there are upward pressures on wages and working conditions, as workers have more of a choice about where to work. Please check…
alan’s blog: The author says: “Anytime you see a new corporate program being rolled out with posters and coffee mugs and exhortations from the CEO the alarm bells should go off – similarly, if you’re the exec thinking up the…
Top News Article | Reuters.co.uk: “Manufacturers need more government money for training, research and innovation rather than lower labour costs to face up to growing competition from China, trade unionists said on Tuesday.” As long as some of that money…
CBC News: 2nd Toyota plant for Canada, president says Click above for the story. I’m glad Toyota and other foreign automakers are growing to make up for jobs lost from the “Big Three/Two”. Please check out my main blog page…
