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• LEADERSHIP IS CRITICAL TO LEAN

  - 2008-03-01

  Most companies develop managers, not leaders, and without leaders no company can implement lean principles Virtually every manufacturing company in America is attempting to implement Lean principles, but aside from Toyota or their major Japanese suppliers, what companies can claim to be Lean? If you know of any,...

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• Learning to Lead at Toyota

  - 2007-12-14

  The Idea in Brief Many companies try to emulate Toyota's vaunted production system TPS, which uses simple real-time experiments to continually improve operations. Yet few organizations garner the hoped-for successes Toyota consistently achieves: unmatched quality,...

  Tags: Training, TPS, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Steven J. Spear, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Toyota Motor Corp., Worker

• Itawamba County lands first supplier

  - 2007-09-03

  FULTON - The first supplier for Toyota Mississippi officially announced its new Northeast Mississippi location August 28. Toyota Boshoku America TBA will build a 341,000-square-foot plant on 40 acres south of U.S. 78 in western Itawamba County. Facing an audience of several hundred at the Fine Arts Center of Itawamba...

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• An interview with economist Susan Helper

  - 2007-09-01

  Starting on the Shop FloorU.S. Auto Workers Face an Industry in TurmoilDETROIT, 1970. The United Auto Workers has over 1.6 million members, representing around 95% of all U.S. auto workers. Typical of the industry, blue-collar workers at General Motors have seen their wages rise by more than 70% over the...

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• The death of Fordism.

  - 2007-05-15

  Byline: David James May 15, 2007 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The surpassing of General Motors GM by Toyota in April 2007 as the world's largest car maker arguably marks the end of what is known as Fordism. This refers to the management...

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• Waste Remains the Enemy

  - 2007-05-01

  When I described 10 forms of waste in the Quality Scan department of Manufacturing Engineering magazine in April 2001, not many people realized the importance of the three wastes I added to the seven originally defined in the Toyota Production system; 8. Workforce underutilization, 9. Improper use of computers, 10....

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• Toyota Workers in Kentucky Demand a Share in Company's Success

  - 2007-03-31

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• What Is MUDA?

  - 2006-07-01

  Waste muda is the enemy of Lean Manufacturing, but how do we define waste, and how do we recognize it? Dan Bills, former CEO of Granville Pnillips (Boulder, CO), once observed, "If I was in Grand Central Station in New York City looking for a person I had...

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• NUMMI plant a model for ailing car industry

  - 2006-03-05

  FREMONT -- AS U.S. auto industry giants Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. slash jobs and close plants, the last major auto plant in California keeps rolling out low-cost, fuel-efficient cars. And it has not had a layoff since it opened in 1984. ...

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• Week in Review.(Briefs)

  - 2006-01-23

  Gov. wants high court to intervene in land sale Gov. Jennifer Granholm has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to reassert jurisdiction over a legal dispute involving a state land sale for a Toyota Motor Corp. research and development center in York Gov....

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