Tag: GM

Headline:General Motors Cuts Prices on 80 Percent of Its U.S. ModelsRemember the "new" Toyota Production System thinking:Profit = Market-Set Price (minus) Your CostsThe "old"...

GM: NOT SO FAST, TOYOTA: A global sales surge keeps us ahead, Wagoner reports (Detroit Free Press)Rick Wagoner points out that GM's sales growth...

Detroit News - 10/17/05UPDATE 2/9/06: Why the sudden interest in this article?? Email me.This isn't new news, nor is it a new...

Toyota Quickens Quest to Unseat GM As a friend in Detroit pointed out, it's interesting that Toyota is allowing Fuji/Subaru to build Toyota vehicles in...

Yahoo! NewsUgh, worse than the reports suggested earlier this morning.GM has been crippled by high labor, pension, health care and materials costs as...

From today's WSJ, in the article about GM's possible plant closures:While the details of GM's plans remain unclear, GM officials have said that their...

Here is the sixth, and probably final, installment of my tales from the NUMMI tour. You can revisit them, by starting with Tale #1 and...

NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop While the NUMMI plant would score very highly on any measure of "Visual Management" standards, you can...

NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why Back to...

NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator?NUMMI Tour Tale #2: The Power of Reynolds Wrap I think, by now, that Toyota is pretty famous...

NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? The NUMMI tour guide told an interesting kaizen story as we went past the body weld area....

I really enjoyed my tour of the NUMMI plant last Friday. I'll post my summary thoughts and impressions from the tour, but I wanted...