Lean Manufacturing in a Small Shop

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[qwertypenis]

These videos are just teasers. As soon as its starts to get interesting its over!

[XCritonX]

All company's have responsibilities to 3 groups.

1) The owners or shareholders.

2) The clients.

3) The workers.

If leaning the company can reduce the need for expensive labor it is a good thing. Owners and clients will benefit directly. Workers will benefit from the increased competitiveness of the company. Their jobs will actually be more secure.

If all focus is put on the workers than you will lose clients and investors.This will eventually lead to massive failure of the company. Basic logic.

[jamesmcashan]

CEO Chuck Wagoner is out to lunch. permanently. but he is doing fine, spending our survival fund. so are millions of well paid Americans, including 30 million US government "employees". most produced nothing that we need. they sabotage things, use our own funds against us [see: IRS], and block our access to life support. - james dennis mcashan. candidate for US Congress. jamesmcashan.web.officelive twitpic flickr youtube facebook linkedin myspace lockerz

[jamesmcashan]

Bill "Logic" Gates of And/or Washington took a public owned US gov database and colored on it. his mom (pardon me mam) had friends at IBM, who set up Billy in another illegal stock bonus scam, stole trillions from all of us [Microsoft in every industry], and sabotaged communication and security. i am a systems analyst. i am indicting millions of industrial partners [including governments] for mass crimes [including murder]. help me to the US Senate! - james mcashan for US Senate

[that1940sguy]

Seeing comments like the majority of those in this thread, praising the elimination of American jobs for the enrichment of the CEO's & guys at the top (THAT'S WHAT'S *ALWAYS* MEANT by "The Overall Benefit Of The Company"), make me ashamed of what America has become. It wasn't at all like this in the 1940's & 1950's: A decent guy could make a decent living. Now you all here are calling these guys "monkeys", sub-humans. HIDEOUS & DISGUSTING. No Shame. I'm with snoopdog68, GO F**K YOURSELVES.

[snoopdog68]

I would never work for you punks, you can GET FUCKED.

[Scherbenkacks]

@fakiir

what you write about "average joe factory workers", is maybe true for the usa, but not for western europe.

I can tell you that an average joe factory worker has to learn for 3 years, until he is fully qualified. But in the company I work in, it starts to pay off. Even with double the hourly production costs compared to the us, the company sends us more and more work, that previously has been done in the usa (sorry by the way).

Lean production works better with highly qualified workers.

[alderaforall]

Try to to justify all the copmensation of top level management that showed big results in the negative direction. They run the company into the ground, still get paid large amounts of money and the hourly guys are the ones that end up in the soup line when it's all said and done with. So I see your point how it must be worth it to reward the guys at the top with high salaries since they could have made the company billions. Management that never has to suffer from their mistakes are shit.

[JTMarlin8]

Hourly guys are disposable. Anybody can use an impact wrench.

Execs have to show results, big results, or they're toast. Rick Wagoner was a mistake, and won't be working again, anywhere.

It's worth it to pay execs high salaries because a they can potentially make the company billions, way more than what they're paid.

And then there's the issue of incentive. Why work harder to make the company more money if the monkeys on the assembly line will make the same?

Unions are shit.

[moparboy74]

I agree to a certain extent, however, what has gotten many companies in trouble in the last several years is the "we can hire anybody off the street to do such and such a job", and when it's skilled trades related, watch out. Most big company management folks don't come from the shop floor or even engineering, anymore. They're numbers people who, in many cases, don't have a clue how to make something.

You can't just hire any old schmoo off the street to do the stuff shown in these videos.

[fakiir]

dont all you communist types look at things by how it affects the greater good? if laying off 20% of the workforce improves the condition for the remaining 80%, i say its for the greater good of the company and the ones who got laid off should have shown up on time!