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GM leaves Nummi, the hot potato is in Toyota's hands

cebrianpablo wrote 6 days ago: DETROIT — General Motors said Monday that it was pulling out of its joint venture with Toyota, a lon … more →

Tags: Toyota, General Motors, Lean, Excellence

Cost Weighted OEE and other free OEE Spreadsheet Templates1 comment

leanexecution wrote 1 week ago: OEE Spreadsheet Templates – One Click Closer: As the days of summer are upon us, we thought it … more →

Tags: Advanced Lean Manufacturing, Cost Control, Lean Metrics, OEE: Overall Equipment Efficiency, Process Control and OEE, Calculate OEE, Calculating OEE, Cost Weighted OEE, Downloads

In A Down Economy--It's All about Leveraging Advantages

djlechleitner wrote 1 week ago: Without a doubt, U.S. and North American manufacturing has taken a “hit” square in the c … more →

Tags: General Manufacturing, Conference, Exact Software, job shop, job shop lean, JobBOSS, shop tech, Theory of Constraints

Are you ready to take advantage of Global Financial Crisis?

jaydixit wrote 2 weeks ago: Global Financial Crisis has impacted each and every business across the globe in one way or another. … more →

Tags: global financial crisis, M&A, Operational Excellence, Six Sigma, Talent Management

“Supply Chain Manger, Outsource Thyself” –Socrates1 comment

counterops wrote 2 weeks ago: One upon a time, companies implemented “MRP” systems. They used these systems to plan the entire mat … more →

Tags: ERP, operations management, Supply Chain

Notes on the week so far:

burriseng wrote 2 weeks ago: I have found so many sites and blogs about minimalism, cleaning, and anti-cluttering lately, it remi … more →

Tags: technical, 2009, business status, Dwell magazine, ESAB Welders, Lean Living, miller welders, Minimalism, projects

Work In Process Calculating WIP for Re-usable racks

bobpetruska wrote 3 weeks ago: Hello Lean Thinkers. I have a question about the practical use of Little’s Law. Please check t … more →

Tags: Lean Thinking, Lean, standard work, Little's Law, factory physics, WIP, work in process

A Lean revenge against mass production from ”The Economist” point of view. Part III

cebrianpablo wrote 3 weeks ago: “… Only in the 1970s, after the first oil shock, did faults start to become visible. The finn … more →

Tags: efficiency, General Motors, Toyota

A Lean revenge against mass production from ”The Economist” point of view. Part II

cebrianpablo wrote 3 weeks ago: ”…The foundation of blue-collar America have all crumbled. Global competition, first from Jap … more →

Tags: carmakers, mass production

A Lean revenge against mass production from ”The Economist” point of view. Part I

cebrianpablo wrote 3 weeks ago: “…GM, Ford and Chrysler tried to improve: by 2006 they had almost caught up with Japanese sta … more →

Tags: efficiency, Magna, Quality, Toyota

The Toyota Way is more than Tools and Techniques

cebrianpablo wrote 4 weeks ago: So you set up your kanban system (Kanban is the Japanese word for “card”, “ticket”, or “sign” and i … more →

Tags: kaizen, kanban, Toyota, tps, TQM

Inspetion and TQM

cebrianpablo wrote 1 month ago: Cheap availability of technology. I read daily about silicon and semiconductor industries. In the ac … more →

Tags: Inspection, SPC, TQM

A TQM approach to inspection1 comment

cebrianpablo wrote 1 month ago: Cheap availability of technology. I read daily about silicon and semiconductor industries. In the a … more →

Tags: Inspection and Quality Managment, TQM, CIM, Inspection, vision systems

Lean Management

howlett wrote 1 month ago: I have been helping companies transform their traditional business philosophy to a Lean business phi … more →

Tags: Lean Management, continuous improvement, lean transformation

Weinig participates in Ontario technology event

cabinettrends wrote 1 month ago: The Weinig agency for the Ontario area of Canada, Taurus Craco, recently welcomed customers to its f … more →

Tags: Business, Cabinet Trends, Cabinetmaking, Cabinet trends, Cabinet Industry, Woodworking, Wood

Process Management

montanamadness wrote 1 month ago: Oriel’s Process Management Overview Can your organization easily sustain the gains it’s achi … more →

Tags: Business World, Process Management, business performance, Business Improvement, Business, Business Process Management, Business Management, improved business management, Six Sigma

Lean Living - Applying Lean Manufacturing Principles to your Home and your Life

Patrick wrote 1 month ago: You may have heard of Lean Manufacturing and Lean Design – how about Lean Living? The same pri … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Process, Product Ideas, Creativity, efficiency, Homemaking, Innovation, laundry, Lean Design

Delmac Open House event approaching

cabinettrends wrote 1 month ago: Delmac Machinery is hosting its Open House at its High Point/Greensboro, N.C., Technical Center the … more →

Tags: Business, Cabinet Trends, Cabinetmaking, Cabinet trends, Cabinet Industry, Woodworking, hand tools

Change from a Change Agent’s Perspective- Part 2

Don Lindsey wrote 1 month ago: Part 2 (continuation of Part 1)-  Being a “Change Agent” is not an easy job.  People generally don’t … more →

Tags: Business, don lindsey, change, manufacturing


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