Lean Field Guides
Reports on real plants, a how-to for every lean method, and guides for your industry.
Reports
How real plants and companies work, sourced
China's car industry goes global
129 brands, a price war, record exports, and a map of every Chinese plant abroad, year by year.
Toyota's ¥1 trillion robot plan
Toyota will update 400,000 robots, with machines that learn from its masters.
The minivan with no B-pillar
The Zeekr MIX flopped with families, then became Waymo's robotaxi.
The phone company's car
How Xiaomi went from no factory to 600,000 cars.
The shipbuilding gap
China builds about 1,400 ships a year. America builds five.
The 18-month car
How Chinese carmakers halved development time.
Leaner than Toyota?
China's car plants measured against TPS.
Parts per billion
Inside CATL's battery quality system.
Toyota's next line
Stretchable plants, self-driving assembly and gigacasting.
Karakuri
Toyota's gravity-powered automation, with a chute you can run.
Toyota's China turn
The EVs Toyota builds with BYD, Huawei and GAC.
How a Toyota assembly plant works
Takt, andon and kanban on one line.
The mind on the line
Why assembly is a thinking job.