Nice NUMMI Article
Inside Bay Area – IBA – Tri-Valley Herald – Local News Here’s an article about the Toyota-GM joint venture plant known as NUMMI. I had a chance to visit NUMMI late last year and I published some of my “tour…
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Lean at NUMMI
Society of Manufacturing Engineers Here’s a good overview of the Toyota/GM “Joint Venture” plant, NUMMI. I put “JV” in quotes because, sure there is joint ownership, but it’s not really jointly managed. A manager at NUMMI says: Most people are…
You Get What You Inspect: A NUMMI Lesson in Lean Leadership
Here is the sixth, and probably final, installment of my tales from the NUMMI tour. You can revisit them by starting with Tale #1 and continuing on from there. One more important reminder from the NUMMI visit reinforced something I’d…
Why Toyota Knows Perfection Is Impossible: A NUMMI Lesson
NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop While the NUMMI plant would score very highly on almost any measure of visual management, you could still see on a tour that it wasn’t 100% perfect in its 5S compliance. In…
How Toyota Used a Pull System in a NUMMI Gift Shop
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds WrapNUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why Back to stories about my tour of the Toyota/GM plant in Fremont CA. The NUMMI lobby has…
Why Toyota Explains “Why”: A NUMMI Lesson in Respect for People
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap I think, by now, that Toyota is pretty famous for its “5 Whys” approach for root cause problem solving. Asking why five times, in…
How a Simple Kaizen Idea at NUMMI Saved Hours of Work
NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? The NUMMI tour guide told an interesting kaizen story as we went past the body weld area. Car bodies are held and transported on metal carrier racks that recirculate through the welding…
Why Toyota Didn’t Fix an Escalator: A NUMMI Lesson in Lean Thinking
I really enjoyed my tour of the NUMMI plant last Friday. I’ll post my summary thoughts and impressions from the tour, but I wanted to post a few of the more interesting stories first. In a back part of the…
GM Wrote It Down in 1987. They Still Didn’t Get It. [Lean Coffee Talk]
Formerly known as “Lean Whiskey” Listen: In Season 2, Episode 8, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh settle in with single-origin coffees, and circle back to a topic that’s been bouncing around the lean world for forty years: NUMMI. But first,…
Lean Blog Week in Review #3 – September 18, 2010
Here is attempt #3 in my experiment with a video “Week in Review” series. Please let me know what you think by adding comments to this post. Links mentioned in the video can be found beneath the video.
My First Visit to the Toyota Truck Plant in San Antonio (TMMTX)
This blog post is about my first visit to TMMTX in 2010.
Life Without Tap Water in Boston – New Standardized Work
I’m sitting here on a Sunday morning, drinking a cup of coffee I made at home with bottled water. Why bottled water? Because of a massive water main burst west of Boston – Boston and 30+ other communities currently have…
