Business Week Article by Mike Lopez Business Week ran an article about some of Hyundai’s recent problems. One of them seems to be a misguided quality program. Although the article says that, In recent years, no other major automaker has…
by Mike Lopez A perfect example of a locally optimized system. According to an article in Businesweek, car rental firms have benefited from a “subsidy” from car makers eager to keep workers turning wrenches. For years, consumers and rental firms…
by Mike Lopez Are you a scientist practicing Lean in your research? Are you trying to apply Lean to your research? We need to talk. I can’t find any scientists using Lean through Google. I am looking to interview scientists…
By Mike Lopez A Bay Area-based global outsourcing expert, Mark Zetter, and HP’s former worldwide manufacturing education manager, Eric Olsen, Ph.D., have written a white paper on Lean Outsourcing. In the article, they raise a very good point. United States-based…
By Mike Lopez: Before Lean, many of the activities that are presently structured as Lean projects used to take place anyway. They flew under corporate radar because the communication pathway was not established to let management know about these grassroots…
by Mike Lopez Lean in Science. Cookie cutters are really good at cutting cookies, but you can’t bake a cake with them. This is my general attitude towards the tools-based approach to Lean. For the past couple years, I’ve been…
To me, Lean is all about simplicity and one of the most powerful applications of Lean has been in the radical empowerment of individuals to exercise the First Amendment. It started way back when the written word was developed. This…
