GA 308 | Lessons Learned at Toyota with Andy Reith

This week’s guest is Andy Reith. Ron and Andy discussed working at Toyota, the challenges small businesses face, and more. A MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here.

In this episode you’ll learn: 

• The quote that inspires Andy (2:32)
• Andy’s background (3:18)
• What Andy learned from working at Toyota (5:16)
• What Respect for People means to Andy (6:56)
• How Andy learned some of the lean tools (8:38)
• What Andy is up to these days (10:15)
• The challenges small businesses face (11:14)
• About Origin Maine (12:33)
• Some of the improvements Andy has seen (15:25)
• Andy’s observations on strategy at small manufacturers (18:49)
• About his own andon system (24:07)
• Andy’s advice (27:24)

Podcast Resources

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• Andy’s Website
• Andy on LinkedIn

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