Tag: Toyota
Big News: Toyota and Tesla to Build Cars at NUMMI
Surprising news today from California... from the WSJ. Toyota and Tesla are partnering up!
Tesla Motors Inc. said it is partnering with Toyota Motors Inc....
Lean Blog Podcast #90 – Tim Turner on Toyota Kentucky (TMMK)...
Podcast #90 features Tim Turner, a team leader at Toyota's factory in Georgetown Kentucky (aka TMMK or Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky). He is the...
How I Broke My Blog and Fixed It… Lessons Learned
For those of you who have had difficulty accessing LeanBlog.org for the past two weeks or so, I apologize. It's been frustrating to me...
Retaining Employees through Respect and Development
I was recently in Toronto and I heard a story on an AM news station that really caught my ear. I have searched on...
April Fool: A New Way to Learn Lean? Wii Lean!
Note: I edited the post title on April 3 to make it clear this was an April Fool's Joke. Comments posted by readers on...
A Lean Urban Legend/Myth Busted about Toyoda and Toyota Names?
Last month, in the midst of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's appearance in front of Congress, there was a little sidebar in the USA Today...
Dr. Deming – “More Relevant Than Ever”
Being a huge fan of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, especially so some 17 years after his death, I like any article that concludes with...
NPR on the “End of the Line” at NUMMI and My...
Here's some Saturday morning listening... a story from yesterday's "All Things Considered" on the "End of the Line" at the NUMMI plant (the GM...
LeanBlog Podcast #85 – David Meier on Toyota’s Quality Challenges, a...
Episode #85 is a conversation with David Meier, a former Toyota Georgetown Group Leader and the co-author of the books The Toyota Way Fieldbook and...
Video Interview with LEI’s Jim Womack
Jim Womack visited Lantech, a manufacturer of stretch wrappers and other packaging equipment. While there and visiting the "gemba," Jim was interviewed about Lean,...
Detroidenfreude
Random thought related to those from the Big 3 Detroit 3 who are happy to see Toyota suffer, I think I'm coining a term...
Akio Toyoda’s Testimony to Congress
I only watched a few minutes of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's live testimony (thanks to online cable news streaming), but the first things I...