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How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 3

Christoph Roser — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:00:26 +0000

This is the last of my three posts on how to benefit at the cost of your successor. And again, please don’t. This is more of a warning on how to damage the plant for the benefit of the manager. And again, I hope rather than someone using this as a to-do list, someone uses ... Read more

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How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 2

Christoph Roser — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:00:15 +0000

This is the second post in this short three-post series on how to look good while driving the plant into the ground. Again, the following is intended more of a warning on how NOT to do it, even though I fear some may use it as a checklist. My hope is that even more see ... Read more

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How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 1

Christoph Roser — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:00:39 +0000

This post series will be an unusual one. I will tell you how to look good in manufacturing at the cost of your successor. Of course, I do NOT want you to do that. Not only will there be no improvement, but instead the plant will be worse in the long run at the cost ... Read more

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American Factory – Documentary of a Chinese Automotive Factory in the USA

Christoph Roser — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:00:40 +0000

A good manufacturing documentary on Netflix is American Factory. This movie follows an American automotive plant that closed some time ago, and was reopened by a Chinese car glass manufacturer. It documents the differences and problems between employees and management in general and the cultural clashes between Chinese management’s and American workers’ expectations in particular. ... Read more

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Fictional Movie on US-Japan Automotive Culture Clash – Gung Ho

Christoph Roser — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:00:46 +0000

Recently I watched a few feature-length movies about automotive plants America. The first one is Gung Ho, a fictional comedy from 1986 featuring Michael Keaton. The movie shows a Japanese car maker purchasing a closed-down plant in the USA, and lots of cultural clashes that threaten to close down the plant again. While not Academy ... Read more

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On Adjusting Supervisor Workload

Christoph Roser — Tue, 14 May 2019 11:00:40 +0000

In my last post I looked at the span of control. This is very related to the workload of the supervisor. Hence in this post I would like to discuss how to adjust the supervisor workload. Usually, this is to reduce the workload, as most shop-floor supervisors are in my opinion overworked and have no ... Read more

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On the Span of Control

Christoph Roser — Tue, 07 May 2019 11:00:23 +0000

Pretty much all companies are based on a hierarchical structure. One superior manages multiple subordinates. The question is: How many subordinates should be managed by a superior? This is also called the span of control. This depends on a number of factors. Let’s have a look at efficient group sizing. Introduction The leadership span depends ... Read more

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Hoshin Kanri and the Kanri Noryoku Program: Rejuvenating Toyota

Christoph Roser — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:00:23 +0000

In my previous posts I explained how Hoshin Kanri works. This post looks at how Toyota embeds Hoshin Kanri as part of their overall management structure. Toyota started this in 1979 when director Masao Nemoto started the Kanri Noryoku Program (管理能力プログラム), usually shortened to KanPro. Linguistics The term Hoshin Kanri comes from Japanese. It is written ... Read more

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