I came across this funding announcement for The North East Productivity Alliance (NEPA) to support its work with regional companies in North-eastern UK. The cash will support 14 handpicked engineers to be trained in lean manufacturing under the Dissemination of…
I’m a bit late with this post, but I wanted to make sure to get this article link out nonetheless. Womack wrote a column published in the Washington Post Sunday December 11 in direct response to the speech that was…
Just-Auto.com reported today that next year Toyota will open a Global Production Centre in the UK to train European workers. There is already a centre in Japan that opened 2 years ago, and another is scheduled to open next year…
Here’s another example of the Lean Consumption model at work. The business model of car sharing is increasingly gaining momentum in North America. Including both for-profit and not-for-profit companies and organizations there were a reported 15 car sharing programs operating…
What a huge opportunity to implement some lean thinking! According to a report issued November 29 by AMR Research, SOX compliance cost $6.1 billion in 2005, and is expected to cost $6 billion in 2006. Without getting into the argument…
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Ford’s North American restructuring plan will include closing 5 plants and eliminating 6% of it’s workforce. Ford did not comment, other than to reiterate that announcements regarding the restructuring plan will be…
Article Link This is a great Q&A with Seizo Okamoto – president of Toyota’s truck plant in Princeton Indiana focusing on the challenges of teaching the Toyota Production System to US workers. The focus on teaching as the best method…
Newsweek: The Blue-Collar CEO This article ushers in Tom LaSorda as Chrysler’s new CEO. LaSorda is the first child of labor leaders to become CEO of a car company – and perhaps even more importantly, he’s a manufacturing guy! The…
Similar Article, Free Link A friend sent this link to me this afternoon almost immediately following a discussion we had about the current state and immediate challenges facing the US auto industry. The article quotes Michael Moore who spoke yesterday…
Something happened this morning that caused me to start thinking about this and it’s been hanging around with me all day. Outputs, in my case today quality documents, can certainly provide value. But should we rank this value based on…
I recently renewed my Canadian passport. Expected completion and delivery of the passport was indicated to be 20 working days from the point the application was received by mail. Unfortunately, my case extended beyond this expected delivery date and I…
More on the contributions of Peter Drucker. This article contains some excellent comments and reflection. Certainly worth sharing. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark…
