JIT Is Flow
12 April 2006
I have to put in a plug for a new book called JIT Is Flow by Hiroyuki Hirano. In the interest of full disclosure, yeah, I had a small hand in editing…
12 April 2006
I have to put in a plug for a new book called JIT Is Flow by Hiroyuki Hirano. In the interest of full disclosure, yeah, I had a small hand in editing…
11 April 2006
Walmart's business model has long been biased against American manufacturers. They have forced American companies to compete on Asian producers…
8 April 2006
So you think manufacturing productivity is way up, do you? Think again. Every genius from those employed by the government to the academic community…
8 April 2006
Toyota is all over the news this weekend - especially in Detroit. As usual, everything about them is impressive, and as usual, few people, if any, ev…
5 April 2006
There is a great article in CIO, which bills itself as "Australia's Magazine for Information Executives" called Fie On Fiefdoms , summar…
3 April 2006
When Michael Dell made his foray into selling cars through CarsDirect, that was OK with Detroit. All he did was put together a collection of dealers…
2 April 2006
On Sunday night, the trials and tribulations of GM were featured on the CBS show Sixty Minutes. Never ones to let the facts get in the way of a good…
2 April 2006
In some respects the lean manufacturing community is like the IT community. There are software people and there are hardware people, with not much co…