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Job Breakdown Sheets for Teaching TPS

By Jon Miller - September 8th, 2007

Job Breakdown Sheets are used as part of Toyota’s approach to OJT (on the job training), called Job Instruction. A Job Breakdown Sheet details the Major Steps, Key Points and Reasons for the key points. Having a Job Breakdown She

Nardelli Poaches Another One

By Ron Pereira - September 6th, 2007

Big, big news today as a top Toyota executive in the US, James Press, has been “poached” by Chrysler. This is at least the second big named Toyota person to jump ship for no doubt huge money. Chrysler said Press will be ch

Humility

By Ron Pereira - September 6th, 2007

This past Sunday the readings for Roman Catholics around the world centered on the theme of humilty. The pastor of my parish gave an excellent homily on the topic and I wanted to share some of my own thoughts as it relates to the those

The Secret Lives of Toyota Term Employees, Episode 2

By Jon Miller - September 6th, 2007

How to Pass the Term Employee Job Interview at Toyota The website “The New – Ask the Term Laborer Porsche” (新・期間工ポルシェに訊け) offers a fascinating glimpse into the secret lives of Toyota term emplo

Kaizen Song: It’s a Long Way to the Top (Teaching Takt, Flow, Pull)

By Jon Miller - September 5th, 2007

By Brad Schmidt Here’s a little back-to-school rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a Long Way to the Top (Teaching Takt, Flow, Pull) [To the tune of It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll) by A

Getting Started with Lean in the Office

By Jon Miller - September 3rd, 2007

One of the most common misconceptions about doing Lean in the office is that there is a different set of Lean tools for the office. We hear “What symbols should we use for value stream mapping in an engineering process?” or

Autonomous Maintenance in the Office

By Jon Miller - September 2nd, 2007

We are going through some design change tests at the Gemba blog as long-time readers may have noted. While testing the various functions and features to send back fix requests to our developer, I came across some reader comments and qu

Management Improvement Carnival #18

By Ron Pereira - September 2nd, 2007

The Management Improvement Carnival is one of my favorite aspects of John Hunter’s Curious Cat blog. John asked me to host the carnival this month and I gladly accepted. So without further delay here are some of my favorite

Lean Sigma Supply Chain

By Jon Miller - August 31st, 2007

Lean Sigma Supply Chain is a blog full of thoughtful, pithy posts as well as the occasional deep dive into lean logistics or lean distribution know-how. Today’s post about 50 things to do to free up warehouse space is a grab bag

Game on!

By Ron Pereira - August 31st, 2007

I grew up watching Ohio State play football. I suppose I was watching them play as a young boy in Greenville, Ohio before I even knew what football was. My mom once told me, “You can take the boy out of Ohio (I live in Texas now), bu

Year: 2007