Archive for 'Lean' Category
A useful Lean and Six Sigma Resource
22 October 2007Ma
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Ten misconceptions about Lean Manufacturing!!
31 July 2007If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!From 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 […]
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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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Building a lean supply chain
21 December 2006In the article Building a lean supply chain, Adam J Fein takes up the notion of building a lean supply chain and how far down along that path supply chain investments and executives really are. The article is dated Feb 2006 and so is not that far from the current state of affairs.
Adam Fein notes,
There […]
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Toyota, Toyota… Part 2
19 December 2006In Toyota, Toyota… Part 1, I looked into a recent challenge outlined by Toyota’s CEO, Katsuaki Watanabe, to his firm about competition in the auto business.
In this post, I want to look at older article from HBS Working Knowledge titled How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers. The article is an interview by with […]
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