WSJ.com – Requires Subscription As Toyota grows, they are struggling with finding/keeping enough people who truly understand TPS tools and the Toyota Way. I’ll try to find a “free” version of this article but here are a few highlights (trust…
WSJ.com – Requires Subscription: In an article that talks about Toyota’s lead (along with Honda) in hybrid vehicles, Toyota’s new President references Kaizen. “Mr. Watanabe said Toyota, through its storied manufacturing system of kaizen, or continuous improvement, can reduce by…
The Globe and Mail:: This is a pretty good overview, “state of Toyota” article. The article discusses how TPS is about more than just reducing waste and cutting costs. “Everybody” now does just-in-time delivery, but there’s obviously more to TPS…
Pelion Systems Advances Demand-Based Manufacturing With Enhanced Real-Time Resource Planning Engine This is becoming quite the recurring theme (see here, here, and here). Lean lean lean…. put “lean” in front of any type of manufacturing software, it must make you…
$8M funding boost – 2005-06-06 Another “siren song” of software? For those not following this line of posts, also see this article on i2 and “lean”.
WSJ.com – (subscription required) | A free link here (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) The gist of this article is that Maytag Appliance is probably being bought out by an investment company (another article about that here). Folks in Iowa are very concerned…
Bangkok Post Wednesday 25 May 2005 – China sourcing: Are you ready? On one hand, this author says: They also talk about a successful implementation of the Toyota Production System/Lean Enterprise principles. He also directly observed this: The work ethic…
Lean Journey – The Never Ending Story Good article here on a group of Chinese executives coming to Canada to learn about lean (talk about a global economy). The author says:“Labour cost was not their main motivation, although it was…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The American responsible for the plan to import cars made in China “contends he will field cars, made by Chinese automaker Chery, that will be at least 30 percent cheaper than the competition, including a sedan to compete…
Beware the product death cycle | CNET News.com: This article raises some interesting questions about the role of quality in today’s marketplace. It argues that quality standards have definitely gone downhill, at least in consumer products, but the market is…
I’m currently reading a fascinating and eye opening book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman, of the New York Times. Friedman has written numerous books on globalization and the Middle East,…
