Lean Principles Investment: Production Team Training

American Railcar invests in lean training for its production staff. ...

... "In addition, we invested time and training to focus our production teams on implementing lean manufacturing principles. We expect this investment of time to pay dividends in the near future. " ...

Via insurancenewsnet: American Railcar Industries

Lean Training Goes On Tour

Lean culture differentiates Japanese from US companies.

... "Instead of paying people to retire, a likely Japanese alternative would be to put people on kaizen (continuous improvement) teams, capitalizing on their experience and problem solving potential instead of paying them to stay at home. ... World Class Manufacturing is not a short-term concept. Justifying the hard work and application of resources to the improvement process is difficult if the focus is on quarterly reports. A fundamentally change in the way success is measured must be adopted if our economy is to remain viable and sustainable. " ...

Toyota Continues their March Past US Automakers: Lean Enterprise Training Announces Six City Tour Kicks off in Oregon ...