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LEI iPhone App Demo
Author: LEI
Media Format: Images, Articles, Software, Accessories
Publish Date: 2/27/2010
A Trip to the Reinvention of Primary Care at Group Health Cooperative
Author: Eytan, Ted
Summary		 Media Format: Images, Articles
Publish Date: 8/5/2009
Dr. Ted Eytan writes, on his blog, about going to Group Health Cooperative in Seattle to see their primary care and medical home area. The blog post discusses their visual management practices and has photos of their "visual room" for tracking the roll out of lean practices across 26 clinics in their system. "What [they] showed me was a whole room of visual displays used to track the progress of the reinvention of primary care. This includes everything from leadership/manager standard work, call management, use of virtual medicine, preparation for visits, as well as the vision, strategic plans, outcomes, and staffing."
Toyota Production System House
Author: Marchwinski, Chet
Summary		 Media Format: Images
Publish Date: 6/5/2009

The Toyota Production System "house" shows the elements of a lean system. Source: Lean Lexicon.

5S at the FedEx LAX facility for cockpit window and material storage
Author: Marchwinski, Chet
Summary		 Media Format: Images, Articles
Publish Date: 5/17/2009

5S improvements to eliminate trip hazards and to improve the storage of cockpit windows at the FedEx LAX maintenance and repair facility are shown as part of the LEI success story, Lean Thinking in Aircraft Repair and Maintenance Takes Wing at Fedex Express. (Photos courtesy of Fedex LAX.)

5S at the FedEx LAX facility for panel and cart storage
Author: Marchwinski, Chet
Summary		 Media Format: Images, Articles
Publish Date: 5/17/2009

5S improvements to the storage of panels and carts at the FedEx LAX maintenance and repair facility are shown as part of the LEI success story, Lean Thinking in Aircraft Repair and Maintenance Takes Wing at Fedex Express. (Photos courtesy of Fedex LAX.)

5S at the FedEx LAX facility help with checking thrust reversers.
Author: Marchwinski, Chet
Summary		 Media Format: Images, Articles
Publish Date: 5/17/2009

A tool to help check thrust reversers and a cart for transporting decking are shown as part of a 5S effort at the FedEx LAX maintenance and repair facility. The photos are part of the LEI success story, Lean Thinking in Aircraft Repair and Maintenance Takes Wing at Fedex Express. (Photos courtesy of Fedex LAX.)

Lean Lets Value Swim Upstream
Author: control design.com
Summary		 Media Format: Charts, graphs, and diagrams, Images, Articles
Publish Date: 12/19/2008
A machine builder and several suppliers explain how lean transformations have benefitted their businesses. Along the way you'll get a brief introduction into the basics of lean and how some of the concepts work. (Published online by Control Design.)
Nice Car, Long Journey
Author: Womack, Jim
Media Format: Images, E-letters
Publish Date: 6/6/2008
Toyota Entering Era of Global Production
Author: N/A
Summary		 Media Format: Images, Articles
Publish Date: 5/13/2008
Based on a speech given by Takeshi Uchiyamada, Toyota's vice president, in Feb. 2008, the article reports the challenges identified by Uchiyamada. The first challenge he discusses is how to ensure "quality and quantity of our overseas human resources" as overseas production grows rapidly. He also discusses the role of domestic manufacturing, including the characteristics of the Toyota Production System. Note that "jidoka," sometimes called "autonomation" or automation with human intelligence, is translated in the article as "automation." (Published by Tech-On, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., May 20, 2008.)
Could IT Revive Japanese Manufacturing Systems?
Author: Keys, Phil
Summary		 Media Format: Images, Articles
Publish Date: 4/30/2008
Under pressure from rising material costs and competition from cheap labor in developing countries, Japanese manufacturers are pursuing production efficiency as never before. However, after the bubble economy burst in the 1990s many companies fired high-wage engineers experienced in process improvement. Some companies are using camcorders and software to record and analyze people performing production activities. A supervisor views the tape to determine what movements can be improved. When an ideal process is designed by editing the video, it is used to educate inexperienced employees.
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