Archive for April, 2009

Just-In-Time | it just makes sense

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Just In Time Manufacturing About fifteen years ago I moved from Central Europe to the USA. Back then many things were different between these two places (not anymore, though). I almost felt like I was on another planet. I was so excited about the New World I was discovering that everything seemed better to me [...]

Kaizen | Continuous Improvement

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Toyota Kaizen During the exciting days of learning about and implementing the Toyota System I asked one of our youngest workers – Lukas, what he would change in our production plant if he owned it. His reply was: “I’ve never thought about it.” But he started looking around and thinking about it. I know this [...]