Aug 20 2013
Toyota Supports Australian Suppliers | Financial Review
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Toyota
Aug 18 2013
Obeya Ops | IW Presentation, April-2013 | Sam McPherson
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“The Theory behind Obeya is based on a simple idea: Dedicate time and space to coordination and problem-solving and organizational barriers will be minimized.
The ability to maintain Proper Problem Awareness in Real-time, listen to Teammember concerns, make discoveries, resolve problems together, collaborate, accelerate leader and team-member development and reach our full potential is critical to a Lean Organization
The Obeya promotes coordination, strategy and flexibility while leveraging the expertise and support of teammates from diverse areas.
The Result: Effective solutions and actions that can be developed and implemented quickly…”
Michel Baudin‘s insight:
A clear presentation, with many informative pictures, as befits this topic.
Jul 29 2013
How the Tesla Model S is Made | The Window | Wired
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If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized robots building slick electric cars in a factory …
Michel Baudin‘s insight:
Tesla just released this promotional video showing glimpses of its factory, the former NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA. Tesla is partialy owned by Toyota.
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Jul 15 2013
Life after NUMMI and Solyndra for Fremont, CA | Manufacturers’ Monthly
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Michel Baudin‘s insight:
While Fremont, CA, is not well known outside the San Francisco Bay Area, it has a place in history as the site of the first auto plant in the US to fully apply the Toyota Production System, 5 years before it was called “Lean.” It was the NUMMI jjoint venture between GM and Toyota. It resurrected a shuttered GM plant in 1984, rehiring 2,500 of its former workers, and successfully built cars for both owners for 26 years until the GM bankruptcy forced its closure in 2010, causing the direct loss of nearly 5,000 jobs, not including the losses in the network of suppliers that had grown around the plant. Solar cell panel maker Solyndra was then a short-lived hope for revival in Fremont, until it went bankrupt in 2011.
Tesla now produces cars in part of the old NUMMI plant, giving it a 3rd lease on life, and disk-drive maker Seagate is moving into the old Solyndra facility. According to this article, Fremont is now marketing itself as a hub for high-technology manufacturing.
I live across the Bay from Fremont, and root for its success.
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Sep 1 2013
‘Lean’ Manufacturing Takes Root in U.S. | Fox News
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It’s called “lean” manufacturing, and analysts say it enables managers to reduce redundancy, increase output and save capital that can be used to hire more workers.
This article in from April 29, 2011, but I just found it today. The facts are approximate, as you would expect from Fox News, but the video includes a good segment on a raku-raku seat in action and an interview of Jeffrey Liker.
Toyota’s system is also presented as centered on collocating designers, suppliers, sales and marketing by project, which says nothing about production… Incidentally, no one who has actually researched Toyota’s approach to product development describes it as collocating everybody.
Even the Liker quote about Toyota’s not having laid off anybody during the financial crisis, while formally accurate, does not take into account what happened with temporary workers. These workers do not have the tenured status of permanent employees, but some work for the company continuously for years.
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