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Article 1: Report: U.S. lost 1.5M jobs to China from 1989-2003 – Jan. 11, 2005 Article 2: Taipei Times – archives Two articles today about jobs and China. The first focuses on currency issues, how Chinese goods are artificially cheap…
Yahoo! News Interesting. It seems like Toyota is being forced into using the technology, based on demographic trends (retiring workforce, fewer workers). I didn’t think it was Toyota’s philosophy to choose automation over thinking human workers, unless the job was…
Article 1 — Who’s Afraid of China? — from NYTArticle 2 ––Fast Company article “Living in Dell Time” Not sure if this web reprint is an example of China IP protection issues (original article on NYtimes.com requires payment), but this…
Johnson Controls Automotive Group Begins Largest Deployment of Lean Operations Software; Factory Logic Solution Extends and Enhances Company’s Lean Manufacturing Methodology Enterprise software for lean environments is different than the classic MRP or ERP systems. Many companies use “software” for…
China threat to Mexico’s border factories ebbs: “‘There are a lot of products it makes no sense to produce in China.’” Good article comparing Mexico (close to U.S. customers) with China (long boat ride away). Toyota’s strategy seems to be…
WSJ.com – (Subscription Only) A reminder that profit = price – cost, where the price is set by the market (not the old approach of price = cost + profit). Sure you might be able to increase your selling price,…
LEI Features Excellent article (registration required, Word Doc) written by well-known Toyota expert and author John Shook.
