Tag: Manufacturing

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...

Milpitas Post - LocalI saw the plant on Friday, it was pretty cool. Some excerpts from my visit notes are below, I should be...

I'm getting a chance to tour the NUMMI plant in Fremont CA, the joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. I'm very excited...

Star-Telegram.com :Another lean case study, this time from a small company in Texas:"Employees manufacturing the same products are clustered together in work groups, with...

Virginia Postrel Article (NY Times article Feb 2005) Here is a great example of a company using lean to compete in the furniture industry, where most...