Toyota’s Mom & Pop Suppliers Feel CCC21 Squeeze
August 15, 2008
Just on the heels of praising Toyota’s supply chain strategy while chiding Boeing’s I came across some articles from earlier this year... Read more...
The Wedge is the Simplest of Tools
August 12, 2008
The wedge is the simplest of tools. A wedge has a flat end and a pointy end. A wedge converts a blunt, general force into a sharp, narrowly focused force. A wedge... Read more...
The Hard Sell for Cells
August 11, 2008
On a few occasions lately I’ve had to make the hard sell for cells. Typically when teaching people how to implement TPS... Read more...
Oh Noes! Boeing Haz Supply Chain Woes?
August 8, 2008
Laughter is good for us, even though sometimes we laugh because of pathos more than humor. So it is with news that Lack of Seats, Galleys Delays Boeing, Airbus from today’s... Read more...
Learning from Things that Didn’t Work
August 6, 2008
One of the common objections we hear to doing kaizen is that “We′ve tried it before and it didn’t work,” as if past failures were ever... Read more...
Toyota’s Top Engineer on How to Develop Thinking People
August 4, 2008
The August 4, 2008 Nikkei Business Online article titled Top Engineer Explains How Toyota Develops People (技術最高職が語る「トヨタはこう人を育てる」). The article is an interview... Read more...
The 5W1H of 5 Why
July 31, 2008
There is a wise saying that “Knowledge means nothing without wisdom to profit by it.” It’s not who we are, who we know or what we know, it’s... Read more...
Ambiguous Visual Controls: Stop on Green
July 24, 2008
One of the small remaining delights in foreign travel after 15 years of it is the discovery of yet another laughably ambiguous visual control. Something... Read more...
The Lean Journey and the Long Path
July 22, 2008
A journey is used as a common metaphor for lean deployment. In fact many speak of the implementation of the Toyota Production System and its many non-production... Read more...
Three Ways to Draw Future State Value Stream Maps
July 17, 2008
A value stream map is a diagram showing the flow of the material, goods or services and also the supporting information flow. It is typically drawn in a clockwise fashion beginning... Read more...
