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DM to reduce assembly errors and increase customer satisfaction
One of the PPFL cases from the 2nd half of 2019, Fundição Santana, revealed how important daily management is if we want to ensure the quality of our products and increase the satisfaction of both internal and external customers.
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In defense of lean
Lean, Toyota's pioneering production system, is the victim of many misunderstandings, say two of its experts. But, when done well, it can deliver positive results for managers and companies.
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Industry 4.0 or Lean 4.0?
Atlantis Foundries achieved zero defects for three months in a row thanks to machine learning. However, the human component cannot be overlooked.
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Blue sky thinking
Engaging people in success and building a solid daily management system is enabling a Velux plant in Poland to achieve its strategic goals.
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Surviving an inflection point
The automotive industry is undergoing incredible change, and “disruption” is the word on everyone's lips. How can companies survive? Once again, Toyota shows us the way.
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Jishuken at Toyota Motor Kyushu
INTERVIEW - An LGN team just spent a week at the gemba with Toyota veteran Hideshi Yokoi for a jishuken exercise. We asked him to explain how he used this practice at Toyota Motor Kyushu.
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Changes in continuous flow can prevent dramatic plant closures like Ford’s
Is your company slow to change, piling up the need for huge adjustments that are sometimes no longer possible, or does it make improvements in continuous flow?
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Lean learning also happens across sectors
The power of cross-pollination: learning from a manufacturing company helped a cancer treatment center in Brazil thrive in its lean transformation.
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Lean thinking: ingredients, incubation and diffusion
The author offers an overview of the ingredients that made lean thinking what it is today, the 30 years of incubation it underwent at Toyota and its diffusion from 1980 onward.
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