Toyota's latest standards for lean not good enough

RP news wires, Noria Corporation
Tags: lean manufacturing

When Toyota opened its newest North American assembly plant in Woodstock, Ontario, last fall, it was chock full of the company’s very latest thinking and innovations for building a car efficiently. But with the global automobile industry mired in its worst crisis in a quarter-century, even Toyota’s latest standards for lean manufacturing are not good enough.

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/business/global/13toyota.html?hp