Lean Manufacturing

Lean Blog Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Liker

Avatar photo By Jon Miller Published on August 28th, 2006

Visit the Lean Blog to hear Mark Graban’s podcast interview of Dr. Jeffrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineerring at the University of Michigan.
Find out answers to pressing Lean manufacturing questions such as:
“Do you sometimes have to drag senior management out to the shopfloor?”
“Can you pick and choose which of the Toyota Way 14 points that you use?”
“How long will it take the new San Antonio plant to become a true lean factory?”
and why Toyota thinks you can’t implement a perfect Lean manufacturing system.

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Jon Miller

Jon has dedicated his 25+ year career to the field of kaizen, continuous improvement, and lean management. Jon spent the first eighteen years of his life in Japan, then graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s in linguistics.

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