Tag: Automotive
Ford Pays Process Coaches Six Figures. They Quit Within Eighteen Months.
Ford spends roughly $100,000 a year on each of its first-line production supervisors. The title on the job posting is "Process Coach" - language...
Did Ford’s Andon Cord Problem Ever Get Fixed? Help Me Find...
In 2007, I wrote about a BBC article that included a number I've never quite been able to shake. Workers at Toyota's Georgetown, Kentucky...
Car Dealer Service Departments: Stop Coaching the Score, Start Listening to...
I recently had my car serviced and left the dealership satisfied with the work and the interaction with the service advisor. But what followed...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 31, 2024
Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
Gerald Harris on Lean Lessons from Auto Manufacturing and Healthcare
Gerald Harris spent 25 years leading lean transformations in automotive manufacturing before shifting into healthcare consulting, and his origin story starts with a Toyota...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 9, 2022
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him!
Insights about improvement, innovation,...
On the Recent Passing of Two American Auto Industry Legends: Lee...
Lee Iacocca, the former CEO of Chrysler, passed away on July 2.
Ross Perot, founder and former CEO of EDS, also passed away a...
Podcast #330 – Christoph Roser, His Grand Tour of Japanese Automakers
Joining me today for Episode #330 of the podcast is Christoph Roser, a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences...
Sad Bloomberg BusinessWeek Article on Auto Supplier Safety, Thoughts for Healthcare
A few of you sent me this article... and you were correct to think I would be interested: "Inside Alabama's Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs." What are the parallels and lessons for hospitals?
Podcast #272 – Steve Thompson, Lean Supply Chain Lessons from Automotive...
My guest for Episode #272 is Steve Thompson, Director of Patient Driven Supply Network initiatives for Cardinal Health, a global, integrated healthcare services and products company....
Practicing Lean: Bob Rush on Learning From Mistakes at Tesla and...
Chapter 8 is written by Bob Rush, who currently works as a Lean Manufacturing Group Leader at Tesla Motors. Tesla, of course, is in the building that was the former NUMMI factory...
Automakers & Car Dealers Should Survey Customers Who DON’T Buy and...
The world (especially the world wide web) is full of surveys. Tell us how we're doing! Your satisfaction is important to us! We see...
