Archive for 'Lean' Category
Runaway Prius hits 90 mph before stopping with aid of CHP
9 March 2010This has all the makings of a disaster and from the looks of it Toyota Corp has the deer in the headlights look. This has all the makings of a PR disaster minus the PR.
The driver of a Toyota Prius who called 911 on Monday to report his accelerator was stuck finally got the car […]
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The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing - Part 3 (Final)
4 September 2008In this final part of my review of The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing, an article that you can find at the IEEE Spectrum site, I mean to go over the capabilities of Fab PowerOps (FPO) and contrast it with the essence/framework that Toyota Production System (TPS) offers. In the earlier two parts, The New […]
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A useful Lean and Six Sigma Resource
22 October 2007Ma
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Ten misconceptions about Lean Manufacturing!!
31 July 2007From time to time, you get squeezed on every front - the blog has suffered a bit in that time. But there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
This chap is turning ONE! That’s my son Sahel and he turned 1 on July 29th this year and we’re having a birthday bash this coming weekend. […]
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Free download of Six Sigma guide
9 July 2007Manufacturing Trends is making available a free download of an "experts" guide to Six Sigma . I quickly perused it and it looks fine but as always as far as statistical symbols go, a little due diligence is always a good measure. You have to register in order to obtain the download but I think […]
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Training within Industry and Toyota
12 June 2007A quick note for today. I came across this rather interesting Lean exercise through a Yahoo group. This presentation, by John Shook, is about Training Within Industry (TWI) and how Toyota adapted and developed these methods.I think it fills in some of the blanks of what constitutes some high level overview of how a continuous […]
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Toyota plans ultra-inexpensive car
22 January 2007As reported in the news today, Toyota plans ultra-inexpensive car - Wow!
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build a low-cost car undercutting Renault’s emerging-market Logan through a “radical” rethink in design and production, the president of the fast-growing Japanese automaker said.
What is the Logan from Renault? (More information available at Wikipedia)
The Renault Logan is the latest […]
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