The Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing The manufacturing prize winners have been announced. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark Graban. , , ,…
Lean Insider – A New, Enterprise Shingo Prize This news comes via the new Productivity Press “Lean Insider” blog that has been ramping up. I’ve been critical of the Shingo Prize before (as have others) for honoring individual factories that…
The Herald-Mail ONLINE Congratulations to the Letterkenny Army Depot for winning its second Shingo Prize for lean excellence. “David Gress, the division chief for the Ground Support Division, said each step of production is limited to 30 minutes. Depot Chief…
Sandia’s neutron generator production wins Shingo Prize – New Mexico Business Weekly: I’m surprised that the U.S. government would spent time and energy trying to win a Shingo Prize. I don’t doubt their lean efforts, don’t get me wrong. Sandia…
Unless you subscribe to Superfactory, you probably haven’t noticed a nearly raging debate on the true contributions to “lean” and the Toyota Production System by one Dr. Shigeo Shingo. Here’s a little of the storyline. It basically comes down to…
News: 14 Companies Earn Shingo Recognition I could believe it more if the Shingo people merely claimed that the prize rewarded local examples of some good lean practices, but they claim much more. Company competitiveness depends on factors less easily…
Financial News – Yahoo! Finance So is the Shingo Prize more indicative of book quality than it is for lean company performance? Either way, congrats to Jim Womack, Dan Jones, Freddy Balle, and Michael Balle for their Shingo winning books.…
I’ve always wondered how you would do investing in Shingo Prize-winning companies. There is quite a bit of debate in the lean blog world about the Shingo committee continuously awarding plant-level lean achievement prizes to bankrupt companies, namely Delphi. I’m…
Reliable Plant Magazine The latest Shingo Prize winners have been announced. Congratulations to them all! And good luck to them all! I hope they realize that their lean journey isn’t over, it’s only just begun. Now some have taken issue,…
Click for Article This past year has been a good one for new lean manufacturing books. I haven’t read this one yet, so I can’t give it a personal recommendation, but I’ve heard many good things. Has anyone read this,…
