Jun 25 2012

Chula Vista leans on private industry

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How the city government in Chula Vista, CA, got help from the local Goodrich Aerostructures plant to start a Lean program in its own operations.

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Jun 21 2012

Toyota counting on exporting Lean to ride out strong yen, seek global growth

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TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. has been hammered by the strong yen, putting extra pressure on the automaker to stay lean and come up with new innovations to ride out the challenge, a senior executive said Thursday.

Note the statement that “…a line was extended in just 78 minutes by moving chunks of it and putting it together differently as though they were Lego parts…”

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Jun 20 2012

IndustryWeek : 15 Years into Lean, CEO Mary Andringa is Still Finding Room to Improve

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Good news, but I would like to know what else the company did besides Kaizen events.

At IndustryWeek’s 2012 Best Plants Conference, Andringa discussed how lean is now helping lower health care costs.

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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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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

Kiwi exporter says no to China manufacturing – Business – NZ Herald News

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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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