All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Productivity Press Lean Insider Another new addition to the online lean world — a blog at Productivity Press. It’s written by Ralph Bernstein, the former editor of the Lean Manufacturing Advisor newsletter. Here is a story they posted about an…
What’s Driving Toyota? Baseline Magazine: Here is a fairly broad overview of Toyota, written for a tech magazine audience. There are good details about the Kentucky plant and TPS (including some quotes from Jeff Liker), so it’s a good read…
NPR : What the U.S. Jobless Numbers Really Mean I heard this NPR story via one of their podcasts, the “Daily Shuffle.” The economist makes a great point — when the government releases numbers that say “unemployment fell from 4.8%…
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #4, again featuring Dr. Jeffrey Liker, My guest for episode #4 of the Lean Blog Podcast is Dr. Jeffrey Liker, professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. This is part two of…
Toyota recalls prove auto juggernaut is fallible, but fixable – 08/28/06 – The Detroit News Online Here is a Detroit News column on Toyota’s recent quality problems. It’s always interesting to see how the Detroit papers write for what is…
GE is famously known for their use of Six Sigma as a cornerstone of the company. “Six Sigma,” of course, refers to a statistical value of 3.4 defects per million opportunities. On their overview of Six Sigma, GE says: “Today’s…
WSJ.com – Toyota May Delay New Models To Address Rising Quality Issues: I posted this article last week, but I looked at it again before recording a new Podcast interview with Norm Bodek. This part at the bottom of the…
Here is Part 2 of my interview with Roger Simmermaker, author of the book “How to Buy American.” Part 1 can be found here. Roger Simmermaker is the author of “How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism.”…
BusinessWeek wrote about Segway, the wonderfully inventive two-wheel transportation device that was supposed to revolutionize how cities are built. Of course, I don’t know anyone who is currently building a new city from the ground up, but that’s a different…
IndustryWeek : Viewpoint — Manufacturers Must Lean Forward, Not Backward The commentator, Dave Gleditsch, says: “I was disappointed to see comments from the U.S. Department of Commerce official Al Frink at the August 8 Management Briefing Seminars held in Traverse…
The search for causes of Flight 5191’s crash (Letters to the Editor) Follow up to the Lexington crash and more contributing factors. I think part of the lesson here is 1) lack of proactive problem solving and 2) a combination…
Denso, a Toyota supplier, is one of the few automotive suppliers in the US that’s growing. Why? One, of course, is that they’re very tied to Toyota, who is growing. That’s always nice. But they are also winning business from…
