Tag: Toyota

Big News: Toyota and Tesla to Build Cars at NUMMI

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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)...

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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

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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

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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!

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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?

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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”

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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...

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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