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How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur I read this book over the weekend, here is the review I wrote for Amazon.com: This is a book that’s needed publishing for quite some time. Most lean books…
Seth’s Blog: The Mediocre Emergency While Seth Godin is mainly a marketing guru, I like his provocative thoughts. From a lean manufacturing perspective, is it easier to “fix” a factory that has an emergency (such as imminent plant closing) than…
Click Here for Free Link The main point of the article is that, on freeways, attempts by individual drivers to go faster (changing lanes, etc.) can slow down traffic overall, causing more individuals to change lanes, leading to a downward…
Detroit Free Press: “Southfield-based Lear Corp., which employs 9,400 workers in Michigan and about 100,000 more worldwide, fired its second warning flare this year on Monday that it will cut jobs and do more of its business in countries where…
Toyota plant nearly done Short update on the truck plant in San Antonio. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark Graban. , , , on…
CBC News: 2nd Toyota plant for Canada, president says Click above for the story. I’m glad Toyota and other foreign automakers are growing to make up for jobs lost from the “Big Three/Two”. Please check out my main blog page…
63,000 People In San Antonio Seek To Fill 2,000 Jobs At Toyota’s New Factory: A few interesting quotes in this article, which begins with: “It is much harder to get a production-line job at Toyota than it is to get…
Thinking by Peter Davidson: Dutch Boy Knows What They Are Marketing This seems like a very smart lean paint can. Think of painting a room — anything other than applying paint to a wall is “waste”. This new paint can…
Airbus, Boeing Eye Production Rate Boosts Across Product Lines – Fly Away Simulation, Flight Simulator #1: I’ve written about Boeing’s impressive cycle time reduction before. I’ve also pointed out quotes from Boeing folks who think and say “well, our costs…
KING5.com News for Seattle, Washington KING5 HealthLink A scary example of how a lack of 5S can literally kill. “ The mother of four had gone in for a procedure on a brain aneurysm. But afterward, instead of injecting her…
Business – International Herald Tribune Interesting article on how small mom-and-pop startups are using China’s manufacturing capabilities to get off the ground. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted…
New York Times:“Toyota’s impact on the nation’s economy has been powerful. A study by the Center for Automotive Research, which has yet to be published, estimates that Toyota’s investments in the United States had led to 386,600 American jobs as…
