Jun 18 2012
Art Smalley: Standardized Confusion » The Lean Edge
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Another substantive contribution from Art Smalley, this time about standards.
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Jun 18 2012
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Another substantive contribution from Art Smalley, this time about standards.
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By Michel Baudin • Blog clippings 0 • Tags: Manufacturing engineering, Standards, Toyota, Toyota Production System, TPS
Jun 18 2012
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A major Kiwi agri-tech company is bucking the trend of outsourcing to China by keeping manufacturing at home and is keen to share its ‘lean’ philosophy with other local businesses.
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Jun 9 2012
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Turnaround is accelerating at Chrysler plants in Kokomo, IndianaIndianapolis StarDuring a rare media tour of three of Chrysler’s four Kokomo plants Thursday, Harlow and much of the plant leadership talked mainly about the difference that the World…
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings 0 • Tags: Lean, World Class Manufacturing
Jun 8 2012
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Kitchener manufacturing expert wins Queen’s medalWaterloo RecordKITCHENER — David Hogg, a longtime local management consultant, has won a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work in promoting lean manufacturing consortiums.
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings 0 • Tags: Lean, Lean implementation, Management
Jun 5 2012
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From Pascal Dennis, brief and to the point, as usual.
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By Michel Baudin • Blog clippings 0 • Tags: Lean, Management, MBA
Jun 19 2012
Malaysian consultant equates Lean with VSM
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In case you had any doubts, Lean management and Value Stream Mapping (VSM) are the same thing, at least according to Mahmud Ahmad Fadzil, the consultant quoted in the article. Never mind that VSM is not viewed as an important tool at Toyota, that there are other tools around, or that Lean is not all about tools…
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings 0 • Tags: Lean, Lean implementation, Toyota, Value Stream Mapping, VSM