Tag: NUMMI

Episode #145 is a conversation with Natalie J. Sayer, co-author of the recently updated 2nd edition of the book Lean For Dummies. I was able...

On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In Time" component). The...

I received a question from a reader, a retiree from a manufacturing company who is now a volunteer for a healthcare organization. We have...

This blog post is about my first visit to TMMTX in 2010.

People often ask "So where did the term 'lean' come from?" It didn't come from Toyota. And the term isn't an acronym (so no...

Surprising news today from California... from the WSJ. Toyota and Tesla are partnering up! Tesla Motors Inc. said it is partnering with Toyota Motors Inc....

I'm sitting here on a Sunday morning, drinking a cup of coffee I made at home with bottled water. Why bottled water? Because of...

Due out in June is a book that I think will be an important one for the Lean Healthcare movement. That book is about...

I have strong ties and connections to the state of Michigan, growing up in Livonia, starting my career there in Livonia, and having my...

Note: I edited the post title on April 3 to make it clear this was an April Fool's Joke. Comments posted by readers on...

TL;DR: NPR's "End of the Line" on NUMMI reminds us that performance problems weren't caused by "bad workers," but by bad management systems. The...

Calif. to get dose of auto anguish | Detroit Free Press | Freep.comHere's a recent story about the demise of NUMMI, in which, the...