Tag: Toyota

Expanding Your Circle of Trust, Er, Learning

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My reader survey (with prizes) is still open through Friday.   I recently stumbled across the movie Meet the Fockers  on TV recently and was...

Dr. Richard Zarbo’s Talk at the Lab Quality Confab

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Don't forget my reader survey - share your feedback and have a chance at some great prizes. In November, I blogged about a panel at...

“Kaizen is all around our shop” — Toyota San Antonio Video

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Here's a nice little video about the Toyota San Antonio plant.... start it at 1:20 and you hear a guy say: "... the belief system...

Japan Tour Reflections: Taking Home Lean Artifacts or Lean Thinking?

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Reflecting more on my recent Japan tour (see previous posts) one word came up in my notes: artifacts. One dictionary definition of that term is...

#LeanStartup Conference 2012 Notes – Get Out of the Building

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In his kickoff to the Lean Startup Conference, Eric Ries promised that there was so much content and so many speakers crammed into the...

Guest Post: The Risk of Ignoring Muri

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Today's guest post is by author  Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for  Podcast #145.   While doing research for another project, I had the...

Andon Cords at the Toyota Takaota Plant – It Doesn’t Come...

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Yesterday, I was able to visit Toyota City as part of the Kaizen Institute tour I am a part of. Now, we weren't able...

Highlights From My First Lean Study Trip to Japan, Day 1

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I know many of you aren't into the whole Twitter thing, but I'm using my account (@MarkGraban) to share some photos and small batches...

Visiting the Toyota Museum in Nagoya

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While I'm in Japan this week (read about the trip), I'm going to keep my blogging light - my aim is to share one...

A Panel of Early Lean Lab Innovators

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This week, I was able to drop by the annual Lab Quality Confab event since it was being held in here in San Antonio....

Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 1

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Recently, I stumbled across something that's been out for about a year, a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...

Just Call it “5S Six Sigma” Instead of “Lean Sigma,” Please

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My whole career, I have worked with the Lean methodology (aka the Toyota Production System). I've just really never done much with Six Sigma....