Jul 24 2012

VOLKSWAGEN AG : ŠKODA AUTO opens new “Lean Center” – 4-traders

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VOLKSWAGEN AG : ŠKODA AUTO opens new “Lean Center”4-tradersŠKODA AUTO opened its new “Lean Center” in Mladá Boleslav. This training centre will school staff and suppliers regarding optimised processes in production and in administration.
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Jul 24 2012

Cellular manufacturing for web-customized wedding dresses

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“…rather than be part of a large group working on an assembly line, workers are divided into small teams, with each one headed by a high-skilled leader. The cells each produce three or four dresses a day according to very specific designs that require a lot of handwork. Taken in total, each company can produce about 200 dresses a day that way, with each cell producing a very different dress…”

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Jul 23 2012

Another article that confuses Lean with reckless

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This is yet another article that equates a Lean supply chain with one that is unprepared for disasters.

See Just-in-time and disasters for the actual Lean approach to disaster recovery.

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Jul 22 2012

The Trouble with On Line Education…mis fire by NY Times op ed | The High-Velocity Edge

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Steven Spear on the value of on-line education. I agree with him, but struggle with the challenge of on-line education for manufacturing. For math or programming, it is straightforward, and there are already models in place that work.

Spear describes cases of on-line participants in management classes using multiplayer technology tor collaborative problem-solving. But what about manufacturing?

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Jul 21 2012

Team building at work

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“According to a recent survey of over 1,000 U.S. office workers conducted by Wakefield Research Study (and commissioned by software company Citrix), three out of every four workers (74%) dislike participating in at least one of their company get-togethers.”

I have long thought of these “fun” activities as inappropriate and counterproductive. Inappropriate because they are an invasion of privacy. Leisure activities are supposed to happen with friends and family outside of work, not with co-workers and bosses at work. Being playmates  is not what employees  signed up for when they joined. It is counterproductive because it shows disrespect for the work. You build teams by having people work in teams on projects, not by playing silly games.

According to the survey, “team-building” actually is second to costume contests for unpopularity:

“[…] anything that smacks of “team-building” similarly gets the thumbs-down from employees, with 31% saying they dislike these activities.”

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