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NUMMI opens new training facility at plant

Milpitas Post – Local I saw the plant on Friday, it was pretty cool. Some excerpts from my visit notes are below, I should be posting the whole thing soon: Before entering the Gemba, you walk past a “Simulated Work…

Touring NUMMI on Friday

I’m getting a chance to tour the NUMMI plant in Fremont CA, the joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. I’m very excited about it and will post some thoughts over the weekend. Anybody already been there and have perspectives…

GM Oshawa says "Beat Toyota"

The Globe and Mail: In the boardroom at the General Motors Oshawa plant is a baseball bat. Two words are carved on it: Beat Toyota (only first page available): Interesting quote: “‘We’re not landing a man on the moon any…

Could Toyota Fix GM? (revisited)

Curious Cat Management Improvement The Deming-focused blog, Curious Cat, has comments on an earlier article I posted about Toyota and GM. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by…

GM pushes its suppliers to tap China

Detroit News – 04/07/05 Well this is predictable. GM is in the news with profit problems and management shakeups. So what comes next? Let’s beat up on the suppliers and pressure them into China. When GM wants “aggressive cost cutting”…