The Quality of Lean
14 July 2005
For good reason Toyota is used as the premier example of manufacturing excellence. But 2005 has has been a difficult time for the company. Some of the…
Toyota Home - Applying the Toyota Production System to Home Building
30 June 2005
Toyota is all about cars and trucks, right? Not quite. I was just pointed to the Toyota Home page on Toyota's website, which briefly describes Toy…
Google Earth and Manufacturing Competitive Intelligence
28 June 2005
Manufacturers are always trying to figure out what their competition is up to. Usually this includes such tasks as scouring trade journals, patent sea…
Nearshoring and Outsourcing - And the Effect on Lean Manufacturing
26 June 2005
An article in the June 17th issue of the Kiplinger Letter mentioned how many companies are starting to opt for "nearshoring" as their outsou…
Lean Manufacturing Training - Seminars, Workshops, Books, Conferences, Videos, and PowerPoint Presentations
24 June 2005
We have had several requests for help on designing a training program for organizations just starting out on the Lean journey. Obviously every situati…
Six Sigma Blog - Charting the Successes of Lean and Six Sigma
22 June 2005
iSixSigma, the well-known Six Sigma resource site, has an interesting blog, SixSigmaCompanies. Many of the posts detail the Six Sigma activities at we…
Lean Accounting Summit 2005 - Lean Cost Management Gaining Critical Mass
22 June 2005
Traditional accounting systems have long been a barrier to lean manufacturing implementations, especially at large companies. Pull manufacturing metho…
The Gold Mine - A New Novel About Lean Manufacturing
16 June 2005
Just in time for summer, the Lean Enterprise Institute has published The Gold Mine by Freddy and Michael Balle, an excellent novel on executing a lea…