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Mar 13 2013

Signs and sustainability | Manufacturing Digital, 2/2013

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Effective visual communications help reduce energy consumption, increase productivity and further the sustainable manufacturing goals of companies around the world, Jack Rubinger explains how…

 

 

 

Michel Baudin‘s insight:

No, it’s not a novel by Jane Austen but an article in a British ezine on Manufacturing.

The article’s author works for a signage company but, this being said, his points on the value of clear, accurate, and regularly updated signage are well taken.

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Mar 6 2013

Wanna Sabotage Your Lean Implementation Effort? Try This | Lonnie Wilson | IndustryWeek

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Most facilities that fail in a lean implementation have failed to create stable process flow. And by stable I mean statistically stable — a process that is predictable. (Wanna Sabotage Your #Lean Implementation Effort?

Michel Baudin‘s insight:

The way I read Lonnie’s article, he is saying that neglect of the engineering dimension of Lean manufacturing is the primary cause of implementation failure. I agree. It is a long article, but worth reading.

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Mar 1 2013

Ford and Toyota Celebrate Historic Milestones |Assembly Magazine

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Ford and Toyota Celebrate Historic Milestones Assembly Magazine (blog) However, the just-in-time concept was not fully realized at Toyota until 1954, when the supermarket supply method—the idea of having subsequent processes take what they need…

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Feb 27 2013

Kaizen management in Central Asia | Times of Central Asia

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BISHKEK, February 26 (TCA) — The market economy requires new competitive advantages to develop companies and retain leadership in a particular industry. Part of the solution is to attract investments and loans, but it still does not guarantee success and stable profits. International donors have volunteered to help Central Asian businessmen, offering to introduce the concept of Japanese management called Kaizen. The author of the concept of doing business which excludes loss is Masaaki Imai, and it is based on the idea of “continuous improvement”.

“The principles of lean production are becoming fundamental in some enterprises in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan,” said Anatoly Maslov, an expert…

Michel Baudin‘s insight:

News about Lean fron Kyrgyzstan! The author can’t tell the difference between Lean, Kaizen, and ISO 9001, but this kind of confusion also occurs outside of Central Asia.

Most interesting, as usual, are the examples of companies achieving performance improvements so spectacular that they make you wonder about the starting point.

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Feb 15 2013

Japan can still teach the world about management: Toshiyuki Shiga, Nissan – Economic Times

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One might expect the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a leading Japanese automobile company to be a man from manufacturing, an engineer who talks kanban and just-in-time processes. Not soToshiyuki Shiga, COO of Nissan. Shiga is a marketing man, an economics graduate fromOsaka Prefecture University and he’s more at home talking sociology than technology. Shiga has been with Nissan Motor Co for 37 years and he’s currently the second-in-command, after CEO Carlos Ghosn.

Michel Baudin‘s insight:

As a source of ideas in management and technology, Japan should neither be ignored, as it was through the 1970s, nor idealized as it was in the 1980s. It is 130 million fallible humans struggling with the hands they are dealt, who occasionally come up with insights we can all benefit from. This ia what I read in Shiga’s words.

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Feb 13 2013

Decoding Jeff Immelt and GE’s New Act: U.S. Manufacturer – Forbes

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“Decoding Jeff Immelt and GE’s New Act: US Manufacturer: Can GE reinvent itself as a Agile manufacturer with a radical capacity to innovate? Is manufacturing back? At the very least, manufacturing is back in fashion, judging from the high profile conference last Thursday at the Newseum in downtown Washington DC. Amid panoramic views of the historic monuments and buildings of the Capitol, a bevy of high profile speakers, including Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Chairman and CEO of General Electric [GE] Jeff Immelt,…”

Michel Baudin‘s insight:

A sarcastic, iconoclastic take on GE’s top management and its strategy, particularly on Manufacturing and Lean, and a spirited debate in the comments that follow. And not a word about Six Sigma.

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