Productivity Press Has anyone read this book on lean culture? I haven’t read it, but it came up in a discussion of “standard work for leaders”. If you have any experience with the book, please post your thoughts by clicking…
Muskegon (MI) Chronicle It’s good to see another example of trying to use lean to remain competitive versus moving this work and factory out of the country. It seems like shipping costs on bowling balls would lead you toward locating…
LEAN Affiliates Library – “The Sirens’ Song of Enterprise Software, by Mark Edmondson” I’ve found some really practical and thoughtful articles on the LEAN Affiliates website, including this one on enterprise software. Has your site/factory been burned by these types…
WSJ.com – (subscription required) | A free link here (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) The gist of this article is that Maytag Appliance is probably being bought out by an investment company (another article about that here). Folks in Iowa are very concerned…
Alcoa: About Alcoa: Alcoa Business System From the Alcoa Production System (now “ABS”) to the Danaher Business System to the Ford Production System (the late 90’s effort — does that still exist?), some companies have, at least in name, attempted…
Superfactory – best practices enabling lean manufacturing excellence Womack references the original Ford factories. I’ve toured the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn and seen plant layout diagrams of the original River Rouge complex — I remember it being a very…
USATODAY.com: The article says:“Two million manufacturing jobs were lost in the last recession, yet the National Association of Manufacturers forecasts a shortage of 10 million skilled manufacturing workers by 2020, largely because students in middle school through college describe such…
Bangkok Post Wednesday 25 May 2005 – China sourcing: Are you ready? On one hand, this author says: They also talk about a successful implementation of the Toyota Production System/Lean Enterprise principles. He also directly observed this: The work ethic…
Lean Journey – The Never Ending Story Good article here on a group of Chinese executives coming to Canada to learn about lean (talk about a global economy). The author says:“Labour cost was not their main motivation, although it was…
I was reminded of a quote I had saved from an APICS article that I saw in 2003. I thought the quote was funny, somewhat unintentionally so. The article was titled “Push and Pull: Getting MRP and lean to work…
IndustryWeek : Driving The Lean Supply Chain None of the speakers here have the name recognition of IW’s last web presenter (James Womack), but this lean supply chain seminar on June 2nd could be interesting. Click on the headline link…
Rockwell Automation Power Services – Lean Production Overview I’ve seen many companies that create their own buzzword or name for TPS and Lean Manufacturing. I just came across Rockwell Automation System’s “Power Lean” program. It appears that they are selling…
