Perspectives from Toyota's Plant Floor

... Insights on Toyota defects from shop floor work teams.

ERP Shop Floor Integration through SAP MII

SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence.

Lean Evangelist

John Grabner and Cardinal Fastener embrace lean manufacturing to achieve market success in producing hot forged bolts. ...

... "Grabner, who hosted President-elect Obama last February, is also an evangelist for lean thinking, a manufacturing philosophy initially associated with Toyota Corp.'s lean manufacturing but today a way of thinking that can transform a company's culture from the shop floor to the front office. " ...

Via cleveland.com: John Grabner of Cardinal Fastener

Kanban in Action

Litto NV.

Communicate the Business Strategy with Lean Six Sigma Implementation

Lean Six Sigma implementations require communication leadership to set the direction, provide transparency to the process, and to celebrate successes along the way. Providing the motivation for workforce change requires identifying change leaders on the shop floor to sustain the communication process. The Six Sigma practitioner will use influence skills to drive adoption by front-line workers and administrative staff. ...

... "When it comes to something as complex as shifting a culture toward the principles and practices of lean Six Sigma, communication is not just important, it is mission critical. " ...

Via Quality: Leadership

Lean Machine Shop

Lean Manufacturing Requires Shop Floor Visibility

In order to operate in a lean mode, factories of the future will rely on automated data collection and shop floor visibility to sense and respond effectively to events that could lead to inefficiency or waste. ...

... "Any Lean manufacturer in order to realize wasteful use of resources and to create more value for the customer, needs an in-depth knowledge of various activities on the shop floor. " ...

Via PCQuest: Factory Future State Vision

Kaizen Change Empowers Shopfloor

TriMas Corp embraces kaizen principles as it shifts accountability for continuous improvement to shopfloor workforce. ...

... "In 2006 it was the inaugural winner of the Toyota Kaizen Blitz Marathon for reducing waste levels. The changes generally happen in a short order of time, Mr Saunders said. And from the perspective of management it empowers people doing the job to make a change. Kaizen change is driven by shop floor or office employees. " ...

Via Star News: TriMas Corp Goes Lean