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Bragging About Long Cycle Time?

BMWad

Thanks to a Lean Blog reader, Ryan, for sending this in (click on the ad for a larger image). He asked why BMW would brag about it taking SEVEN years to develop a new vehicle? This is much slower than…

Waste in Auto Marketing

Guest Post By Mike Thelen: ——————————– I received an interesting piece of “junk mail” this morning. What caught my attention and provoked me to open it was simply that it was from Honda and my Lean obsessive-ness engaged. Now, I…

"Kitchen Nightmares," Part 2

You might have seen Part 1 of my Lean viewing of the Fox show “Kitchen Nightmares.” I watched the second half of the show, so here is the rest of the story. As the show progressed, improvements are made, basically…

Visiting the Lean Dentist

I’ve been fortunate to be attending a healthcare related event in Jacksonville FL this week and I’ve had the chance to meet Dr. Sami Bahri, the “world’s first Lean dentist,” who lives and works here. You may remember him from…

Talk Shop with Cliff from Cheers

Series of Town Hall Meetings on Manufacturing Issues I’ve written before about John Ratzenberger (from Cheers fame) and his show “Made in America.” I’ve always appreciated his show because of what seems to be sincere interest in how things are…

Free Peeks into Taiichi Ohno’s Book

I think I’ve mentioned this resource before, the free content that is online in Google Books. Even though I own Taiichi Ohno’s book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, but it so much easier to search the book online. You…

Upcoming Book: How Toyota Became #1

I was just contacted this morning by David Magee, the author of the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest Car Company I’m hoping to do a Podcast interview with David and I should be…

Waste in Philly Pharmacies

Phila. health agency in disarray | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/26/2007 I saw this in the news as I was leaving Philly earlier this week. Would you run your manufacturing warehouse like this? Dell keeps better track of computer parts than…

UAW / GM Reach Deal

Deal helps GM narrow labor cost gap: I’m not going to spend too much time reading about or writing about the strike, since it’s not really a Lean issue. From the Detroit News: “But the new contract can only do…

Heijunka for Airport Security?

TSA considers reservations for airport security – USATODAY.com I’m not normally a fan of the TSA, but this proposal actually seems somewhat reasonable and reminds me of the Lean concept of “heijunka,” or level loading of a process. A steady…