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Category Archives: Management Articles
Lean Manufacturing in Forest Products
Lean Manufacturing – An Idea Whose Time is Coming to Forest Products? [the broken link was removed] by Thomas G. Dolan In fact, while many understand the basic concepts and have tried various implementations as quick fixes to problems, most … Continue reading
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Dell’s Supply Chain
Two articles on Dell’s supply chain. Living in Dell Time by Joshua Lutz: The aftershocks of the port closings reverberated for weeks. Many companies began to question the wisdom of running so lean in an uncertain world, and demand for … Continue reading
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Toyota Supply Chain Ideas for Big Box Stores
Teaching the Big Box New Tricks (bozos at Fortune deleted the web page so I deleted the link) – What Toyota knows about supply chains – and how to apply it to almost anything, even megastores – from Fortune. At … Continue reading
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Toyota Manufactures More Itself
Bucking the trend, Toyota controls quality, cost by making many parts in house [the broken link was removed], AutoWeek via Lean Manufacturing Blog: On one hand, the company sees parts making as a critical piece of its overall quality-control program. … Continue reading
Lean Development
Lean Development, by Freddy Ball and Michael Ball. Great article. According to a National Center for Manufacturing Sciences report, Toyota product development projects can take half the time of US equivalents, with four times their productivity (150 product engineers utilised … Continue reading
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The Best Factory in the World
The Best Factory in the World (site broke link so I removed it) by Norman Bodek (from his book, Kaikaku): This is a story about a time when Bodek asked Shigeo Shingo to take him to the “very best factory … Continue reading
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Shackled by Bad Six Sigma?
Shackled by Bad Six Sigma? [the broken link was removed] by Fred Mullavey, Quality Digest: Technical experts, customers and suppliers–both internal and external–all need to be involved, regardless of their department or discipline. When boundaries aren’t crossed in this manner, … Continue reading
Box on Quality
Dr. George Box is not as well known in the general management community as his ideas merit (in my biased opinion – photo of Bill Hunter and George Box). He is well know in the statistics field as one of … Continue reading
Peter F. Drucker on a Functioning Society
Peter F. Drucker on a Functioning Society by Joseph A. Maciariello: Drucker’s concern that the institutions of society function for the common good has led him to be critical of business practice from time to time and to take on … Continue reading
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Toyota and the Art of Continuous Improvement
Oh, What A Company! [the broken link was removed] by by Gary S. Vasilash TPS is not for those who are looking for the fast solution. While implementing any single element of TPS will undoubtedly bring some rather startling results … Continue reading
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