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• Online Store Featuring Educational Materials for Lean Manufacturing and Toyota Way Methods Announces Upgrade

  - 2007-05-18

  Kaizen Products LLC announces a completely redesigned online store for Lean manufacturing training materials and supplies.

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• Toyota's real secret: manufacturers sometime assume Toyota's success begins and ends with the Toyota Production System. In truth, though, implementing the TPS is just the first step toward optimizing all the functional processes of an enterprise. The next

  - 2007-02-01

  MANY MANUFACTURERS FIND THEMSELVES trying to solve the Toyota Production System conundrum: More and more, adopters of the lean manufacturing practices of TPS find they aren't guaranteed a competitive edge. TPS merely brings their manufacturing prowes MANY MANUFACTURERS FIND THEMSELVES trying to solve the Toyota ...

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• Venture Outsource Lean Manufacturing Instruction Endorsed by Toyota Corporate University

  - 2006-09-04

  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Venture Outsource, helping technology companies worldwide make smarter business decisions, announced today University of Toyota endorses its lean outsourcing manufacturing seminars taking place in San Jose, September 20-21 and October 24-25. More: http://ventureoutsource.com/events/conferences/leanmanufacturing.html

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• Companies across the Car Sector Have Been Emulating Toyota's Lean Manufacturing Process Regarded across the World as a Benchmark for Ensuring Quality and Efficiency

  - 2006-01-04

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c30186) has announced the addition of New Cars: Global Industry Guide to their offering.

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• Becoming lean key to health.(Opinion)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2002-09-16

  Byline: Brian Jones It has been a brutal past 18 months for American manufacturers. Some parts of the economy, like real estate, were able to slide through the recession with little effect, but manufacturers were hit hard. Product demand slowed, i Byline: Brian...

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• Consulting firms in fat city teaching lean manufacturing.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-09-03

  Lean manufacturing has spawned an industry of its own: the business of teaching leanness to companies eager to learn. A variety of consulting companies and other organizations have specialized in spreading the gospel of lean-manufacturing technique Lean manufacturing has spawned an industry of its...

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• Leaning toward lean; Cost pressures have some rededicating themselves to cutting waste.(lean manufacturing)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-09-03

  The slowest-moving industrial revolution, lean manufacturing, is netting results for companies using its principles but is still having difficulty gaining permanent converts. One of the area's biggest lean-manufacturing fans is Joseph Day, chairma The slowest-moving industrial revolution, lean manufacturing, is netting results...

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