Tag: Toyota
Toyota keeps costs ‘slim’
PittsburghLIVE.comHere's an article that highlights some of Toyota's innovation and success, including a brief description of a "u-shaped cell" for a casting process, which...
‘Breaking the rice ceiling’
Battle Creek Enquirer - www.battlecreekenquirer.com
Here is an outstanding profile of Gary Convis, the President of the Toyota Georgetown (KY) plant and the highest-ranking American...
Toyota Makes Fortune’s "Most Admired" List
Fortune: Most Admired Companies: SnapshotToyota is the first non-U.S. based company to make the list, in the #9 slot. The top 10 are...
Toyota Boosts Commitment to Ontario
Article from Toronto's Globe & Mail - Toyota Revs up plans for Ontario plant: Toyota announced a 50% increase in planned production at it's...
Toyota Drives Into NASCAR
Japanese Automaker Drives Into NASCAR - Yahoo! NewsWill they apply kaizen to NASCAR? :-)It was announced earlier this week that a NASCAR edition of...
Lean and Green in Texas
Thomas L. Friedman (free access via Denver Post): Although the focus of this column is on the environmental advantages of the new Texas Instruments...
Toyota Leadership and Ford Leadership
Jim Press: 'I was in love with cars every second'
Here is a bio of Toyota's North American Sales President, Jim Press. It's interesting to...
U.S. has one rising carmaker: It’s Toyota
Business - International Herald TribuneYou could argue that Nissan and Hyundai are also rising, particularly here in the U.S.Paragraph three, in this article,...
Lean at NUMMI
Society of Manufacturing EngineersHere's a good overview of the Toyota/GM "Joint Venture" plant, NUMMI. I put "JV" in quotes because, sure there is...
Union ignorance of Toyota
Toyota considers West Michigan plant; UAW not pleased -- WWMT - Digital Channel 3You'd think a new auto plant in Michigan, any plant, would...
As Japan’s Elderly Ranks Swell, Toyota Sees New Path to Growth
Free version of articleWednesday's Wall St. Journal front page had quite a contrast. Next to an article about how GM is struggling, there...
NY Times, USA Today, and NPR Report on Toyota
1 -- 'Slow and steady' drives Toyota's growth - (USA Today)
2 -- Toyota Closes In on G.M. (NY Times, requires free registration)
3 -- Toyota...