Andons and Problems at NUMMI
11 February 2010
Interesting article by John Shook in the latest MIT Sloan Review on the culture at NUMMI. The GM-Toyota joint venture let Toyota experiment with apply…
Apria - Your Nose is Growing
10 February 2010
The Apria Healthcare company ... Laid off 105 people California in June, along with 30 more in Illinois and Maryland due to "Medicare cuts"…
Learn from the Right Mistakes
9 February 2010
Akio Toyoda wrote an OpEd piece in the Washington Post offering up his mea culpas and outlining his plan for resolving Toyota's quality challenges…
Toyota's Shop Floor Still Remembers
8 February 2010
While Toyota executives are scurrying around having lost their way, the employees at their factories are doing what Toyota does best: improving. For…
Score Another One For the Good Guys
7 February 2010
by BILL WADDELL Someone said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. Try telling that to the…
Just How Low Has Toyota Sunk?
2 February 2010
by BILL WADDELL Looks like Kevin might have been a bit premature when he gave Toyota credit last week for finally pulling the long overdue andon cord…
A New Critical Japanese Lean Term: oushikuso
1 February 2010
Perhaps the best thing that could happen to manufacturing improvement is the debacle that is unfolding at Toyota. It will put to rest so much of the n…
Git Lean Little Buckaroos
1 February 2010
by BILL WADDELL A guy by the name of Satya Chakravorty wrote an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal, Where Process Improvement Projects…