Jun 25 2012
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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
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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 18 2012
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Another substantive contribution from Art Smalley, this time about standards.
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Jun 1 2012
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More about TPS in health care in Canada, this time about SMED applied to operating room turnarounds. This is not the first time manufacturing techniques cross over to surgery: 100 years ago, through motion studies in operating rooms, industrial engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth developed the method by which nurses make tools immediately available to surgeons.
“Surgeons are using Toyota management techniques to cut time between surgeries and halve overtime hours…”
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May 17 2012
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An article on how Tesla is reviving the shuttered NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA, with a production line designed by Toyota Alumnus Gilbert Passin.
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Jul 6 2012
Toyota’s most successful rival: VW
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings 5 • Tags: Toyota, Toyota Production System