All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
eBots, Inc. Raises $4 Million in Series A Financing; eBots to Expand Product Suite and Services Here is a company that does “e-Kanban” software to work alongside ERP systems. It’s been a while since we talked about the “siren song…
Available from Amazon A followup and companion book for the Shingo Prize-winnnig book The Toyota Way. I have it on order and will post a review ASAP. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content…
Hard-hit New Orleans will lay off 3,000 workers – The Boston Globe: “Nagin had warned that many of New Orleans’s nonessential jobs were at risk” Without getting overly political, this is an “only in government” moment. Some people have been…
WSJ.com – The Culture of Winning This is a fantastic interview with the General Manager of the Atlanta Braves, John Schuerholz (requires WSJ subscription). Even if you’re not a baseball fan, it’s noteworthy that the Braves have won their division…
Got Boondoggle?: The Paradigm Network: On his blog, Mike W. writes about a local lean group that meets in the Indianapolis area. In Phoenix, where I just moved from, there is a group called the ‘Valley Lean Council’ (Phoenix being…
Got Boondoggle?: Any Idiot Can Cut Costs There is a new lean blog with a curious title, “Got Boondoggle?” The blogger is opinionated and shares persona lean examples/stories, which holds the promise of being interesting reading. Check him out. He…
Six Sigma Blog: Solectron organizes events to spread Lean and Six Sigma implementation among suppliers From the Six Sigma Blog, an article about Solectron preaching lean to its supply base. You have to hope with these kind of events that…
USATODAY.com – Ford will use fewer suppliers in attempt to cut costs: The Gemba Pantarei blog also has some good comments on this story about Ford supposedly planning on moving to a more Toyota like supplier relations model of cooperation…
UPDATE: It’s finally here, part 1 of the Q&A Hello blog readers. I’m very excited. I have been promised a Q&A session with the authors of “Lean Solutions”, James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones that I will post here.…
DesMoinesRegister.com Here is an editorial from the Des Moines Register newspaper, prompted by the planned closure of the Maytag plant in Newton Iowa, previously featured here. I certainly believe that manufacturing is one of the few true “value creating” parts…
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta Rei Another good post from the Panta Rei lean blog on quality and perceptions of today’s Toyota, yesterday’s Toyota, and tomorrow’s Toyota… how Toyota says “Beat Toyota”, much as GM says it…
Reopened coffee plant brightens up a devastated city – Business – International Herald Tribune: This isn’t really a lean article, per se, but if you think your factory has problems, imagine the mess at the Folgers plant and the effort…
