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• The fast and the frugal Auris keeps down cost of sports motoring

  - 2008-08-24

  SPORTS motoring comes at too high a price nowadays. Forget speed cameras; nothing slows motorists down like the rising price of fuel. Who can afford to have a good time at the wheel when it means even more frequent visits to the extortionist petrol station? Pumping...

  Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.

• What Financial Services Can Learn From Lean

  - 2008-08-01

  Lean, the business philosophy that has driven Toyota’s relentless rise to the top of the auto industry, is making significant inroads into banking and financial services. And the results are impressive. The gains through eliminating waste and improved customer service after adopting Lean are hard to ignore.Research from the Corporate...

  Tags: FINANCE, financial, PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.

• AT YOUR SERVICE

  - 2008-07-27

  MR C. Water field, from Sut ton-in-Ashfield, wants to sell his one-owner 1984 Toyota Crown 2.8, which has covered only 14,950 miles. It's been MoT'd every year, stored in a heated garage and comes complete with all its tools, manuals and full Toyota dealer history. He now needs the garage...

  Tags: INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Change: embrace it, don't deny it: tools and techniques inspired by software development can introduce the flexibility needed to make changes during product development with minimal disruption

  - 2008-07-01

  Change from plans during a new-product development project is a topic that increasingly places developers and their managers in a dilemma. On the one hand, change is becoming increasingly commonplace. Customers, who are presented with more and more options today and can turn to the Internet for competitive product information,...

  Tags: developer, Experimentation, PRODUCTIVITY, software, Strategy, team, technique, technology, tool, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Gemba Research Announces Lean Enterprise Study Mission to Japan

  - 2008-05-21

  Despite the proliferation of lean manufacturing and TPS Toyota Production System books and training courses in the market today, the best way to learn is to "Go to the gemba, the actual place of action, to see for yourself." On the week of October 26-30, 2008, Gemba Research ( www.gemba.com...

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• WOMAN SAYS 2 MEN ROBBED HER HOME

  - 2008-04-23

  A 64-year-old woman said she begged for her life early Tuesday when two men in dark clothing broke into her condominium and tied her up. "I just told them, 'You can have whatever you want, just don't hurt me,'" said Nora Krout of the 300 block of...

  Tags: Components, HARDWARE, PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Ryobi Die Casting receives quality award from Toyota North America

  - 2008-04-01

  Ryobi Die Casting Inc., Shelbyville, Ind., among others, recently received top honors for quality from Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., Erlanger, Ky. Delivered in Covington, Ky., at the company's Annual Supplier Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony, the awards acknowledged suppliers who have met Toyota's highest standards...

  Tags: FINANCE, Indiana, Kentucky, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, Quality, SOFTWARE, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Vehicles with star qualities; Your chance to go for the BMW that attracts the famous

  - 2008-02-27

  Byline: By MATTHEW TUMBRIDGE PATSY Kensit, Steven Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand... my uncle Richard. I could go on but it will get tedious. What do these people all have in common? They have chosen to buy BMW X5s. Now they paid full price, buying them new from the main...

  Tags: BMW AG, PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Lean changes mindsets.(member forum)

  - 2008-02-01

  LEAN THINKING HAS A GREAT influence on people's mindsets, including the following seven aspects. Lean thinking challenges habits. People do not adapt well initially to changes in the workplace. Lean thinking is a challenge or terminator for the If it ain't broke, don't fix...

  Tags: Manufacturing, mindset, PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota to make sure drivers awake at wheel

  - 2008-01-22

  TOKYO AFP — Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it would soon equip vehicles with a system to verify that drivers' eyes are fully open to make sure they are not asleep at the wheel. It has given its pre-crash safety system the eye-monitoring function in addition to its current...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.