A USA Today article offered a small but telling example of how Toyota applies root cause problem solving and kaizen in everyday work. Even in times of financial pressure–or when business is going well–this kind of employee-driven improvement shows what…
U.S. Big Three Trail Japan in Productivity – New York Times Sometimes, in the course of my reading and research, I stumble across something interesting in the NY Times archives. Keep in mind this is from 1995: The Big Three…
Mock Assembly Lines Work Out Glitches: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Nissan has struggled with quality (particularly in their Mississippi plant), so they are taking some dramatic steps to improve their handoff and collaboration between design and production with a…
Nissan News | Nissan’s ‘shot in the arm’ for healthcare sector It’s not just Toyota working with the Toyota City hospital or GM helping the University of Michigan hospital… Now Nissan is helping a hospital in the UK: And the…
From today’s Automotive News (not freely available online): Industrial engineers trained in the fine points of Japanese manufacturing are about to descend on some Nissan dealerships. Their goal: teach retailers an industrial practice called “standardized work,” an auto factory method…
Fortune Article In an article that reminds us that the uber-leader is merely human: “He’s not a superman, only a human being, but he gets results,” says Garel Rhys of the Cardiff University Center for Automotive Industry Research in Wales.…
ABC News: Can a Charismatic CEO Save GM? GM partnering with Nissan Renault? Jim Womack doesn’t think it will help: “It’s hard to see how this deal has anything to do with doing a better job on any of those…
djournal.com To those who like to lump all “Japanese” automakers into one category, here’s some news on Nissan and their Mississippi plant that opened in 2003. Open less than three years, the Nissan assembly plant in Canton, just north of…
