IndustryWeek’s coverage of lean and continuous improvement over the past year presents a wealth of wisdom to help advance ...

When the 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy triggered a global recession, Toyota Motor Company lost money. In December of that year, with a photo of Toyota board members bowing in shame, a New York Times ...

Author Amine Nefzi distills proven frameworks that enable organizations and professionals perform better today than ...

Sean Suggs, recently promoted to president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi, speaks often about his plant’s future being in its people, and he’s certainly wasted no time making good on that ...

Miye Cox has been working on environmental issues at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (TMMC) for 26 years, but she and her team were still a bit surprised to learn of a new green project back in ...

Toyota’s success is more than the sum of its parts; it’s a testament to the power of a deeply ingrained philosophy. At its core, Toyota harmoniously melds age-old Japanese principles with contemporary ...

Continuous improvement can be a very valuable discipline, but it can also be deadly trap. So it would be useful to know which it is, in any given situation. Here is how. First of all, imagine you are ...

The performance-punishing nature of poor workplace design is a persistent issue filled with musculoskeletal injuries and rising medical care costs. Many manufacturing and industrial companies attempt ...