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…
Alcoa: About Alcoa: Alcoa Business System From the Alcoa Production System (now “ABS”) to the Danaher Business System to the Ford Production System (the late 90’s effort — does that still exist?), some companies have, at least in name, attempted…
USATODAY.com: The article says:“Two million manufacturing jobs were lost in the last recession, yet the National Association of Manufacturers forecasts a shortage of 10 million skilled manufacturing workers by 2020, largely because students in middle school through college describe such…
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…
BBC NEWS :It’s not just the U.S…. Scotland also is facing closures/moves to China. “‘We increasingly acknowledge that this situation is a symptom of a global manufacturing system which is dominated by low cost production in other countries. ‘Unfortunately for…
Many interesting comments here from someone who worked directly for/with Taiichi Ohno. He comments on developing workers who can think — TPS being the “Thinking Production System.”
Click for Article Just a short while after Jim Womack’s “Lean Consumption” article came out, here’s a real life example of Toyota doing lean auto service in India. They say they are applying kaizen techniques and reducing non-value added processes…
KLTV 7 Tyler-Longview-Jacksonville, TX: Another company looking for handouts. I found it funny that the Dell VP would say “I’m worried for our country” if North Carolina didn’t give them a zero taxes for 20 years deal to open a…