via Evolving Excellence Foxconn, the contractor that makes the iPods is being more specific now in their denials about employee mistreatment in China. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is…
iPod City: Apple criticized for factory conditions There was a fairly shocking story in the Sunday Mail, a London newspaper, about the iPod factory conditions in China. The full text of the article isn’t available online, but I was able…
Democrat & Chronicle: Business Let’s hope this becomes the trend, rather than indiscriminate offshoring of manufacturing work to China. This is the second article now in a short time (here was the first) that talks about companies moving at some…
China’s longest river “cancerous” with pollution I know not all manufacturing in China is offshored formerly-American production. But still, consider this when you are looking to move production to China. “China’s longest river is “cancerous” with pollution and rapidly dying,…
globeandmail.com : KODIAK COMES HOME At first glance, this looks like a heartwarming story of a Canadian manufacturer that “came home” after bouncing around different Asian countries most of the past decade. “For the first time in six years, Kodiak…
Discovery HD Theater :: Episode :: Getting Rich For those with HDTV, a show tonight that focuses on China and the rise of the manufacturing economy there. I’ll report back in about a week after my travels when I can…
globeandmail.com : Toyota heads to Simcoe Toyota is investing $50M to build a parts plant in Ontario. This plant will supply parts to the current plant as well as the future assembly plant that Toyota is building near by. Look…
Neosho Daily News For a while there, Wisconsin was the hotbed of lean articles. This week, it’s Missouri, and both articles are in a small town newspaper, the Neosho Daily News. First, it was La-Z-Boy, now it’s K&S Wire. Who…
tompeters! This quote came from a frenetic Tom Peters slide deck (link above, see slide #14). “THE CUSTOMER IS GOD AND THE MARKET DECIDES EVERYTHING.” That sounds pretty much a lean philosophy to me. Make only what the customer wants,…
Neosho Daily News Here is a nice story from Missouri about how La-Z-Boy is converting it’s plant (and others) from “batch and queue” to a lean, cellular production layout. Using lean to cut cycle times and costs is a great…
Reuters AlertNet:Poisoned river shows dark side of China’s boom The growth of China, along with the outsourcing of manufacturing work, isn’t just an economic issue, it also impacts the environment and worker safety. Recently, a major chemical spill has threatened…
WSJ.com – Business World I know it’s popular to say that Wal-Mart is killing U.S. manufacturing because of its insistence in driving manufacturers to China. Here is some interesting data from today’s Wall St. Journal though. The People’s Republic exported…
