Month: June 2006

22 Articles

Kaizen Consultant Asks: “Why is this Here?”

By Jon Miller - June 2nd, 2006

Last month I joined two kaizen consultants from our team to do an opportunity assessment at a tier one automotive company. It’s good to see kaizen and Lean manufacturing efforts increasing at automotive factories in the United St

Physiognomy & Phrenology vs. Root Cause Analysis & Kaizen

By Jon Miller - June 1st, 2006

For 27 years the Harbour Report has been measuring and comparing the performance of automobile companies, using metrics such as productivity defined as vehicles per man hour. This reminded me of a pair of dead sciences called physiogno

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