Dec 20 2012
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Now in its fourth year, the IW Manufacturing Hall of Fame gives us an opportunity to reflect on what — and who — is most important to the world of manufacturing.
I already posted the citation on Robert W. Hall. This is about the complete list of inductees.
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Dec 17 2012
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IndustryWeekManufacturing Hall of Fame 2012 Inductee: Robert ‘Doc’ Hall | IW …IndustryWeekFor more than 30 years, Hall has been both a student and strong advocate of Japanese production methods and lean manufacturing techniques.
I still have his 1983 book on my shelf, and it is still useful.
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Nov 30 2012
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The Harvard Business Review, on its 90th anniversary, equates good management with having long-term goals with tough but achievable short-term performance targets, financial incentives to reward high performers and punish underperformers, and a monitoring system to rigorously collect and analyze performance data.
If you don’t have these things, then, by definition, your company is badly managed. After conducting a worldwide survey, the article’s authors concluded that, indeed, most companies are.
Management By Objectives, anyone? I thought we were moving past that debate.
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Nov 30 2012
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As the father of Amazon, Jeff Bezos deserves enormous respect, and his statement linking Amazon Web Services to Lean is a homage to Lean worth listening to. With all due respect, however, the connection, as described in his own words, is a stretch. Many businesses pay attention to customers and to the quality of their goods and services, but that is not enough to make them Lean.
“AWS is […] akin to Toyota’s lean manufacturing methods, Bezos said. Why? Both AWS and lean manufacturing aim to remove defects closer to the source.
This lean manufacturing approach to IT — with AWS as a building block, of course — means application developers and data center costs are increasingly aligned. ‘The data center has been an application-free zone for developers. You write code and you have no idea how much it consumes,’ Bezos said. ‘One of the most unappreciated benefits of AWS is that developers get a real sense of what’s really driving the cost.'”
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Nov 28 2012
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Dec 28 2012
With the world watching, change begins at China’s factories – SiliconValley.com
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A revealing story, where “lean” is only used in the sense of a backrest to lean against. Under pressure, FoxConn has come around to replacing stools with chairs. In another 10 years, they may realize that sitting while working 10 hours a day is itself a problem, and redesign operations so that operators stand and move. They may also realize that you get higher productivity and better quality with 8-hour shifts.
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings • 1 • Tags: Apple, China, Sitting operations