Innovation Lean Manufacturing Operations Workshop 
Deming Institute
JANUARY 16, 2017
General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net. What had happened?
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2016
Operations in a Connected World. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, lean manufacturing was the Big New Idea and it seemed like everyone was learning new tools with Japanese names. Instead of large crews disassembling the packs at centralized workshops, small teams would replace the batteries in the field as needed.
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