NUMMI - Wikipedia
WebNew United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was an American automobile manufacturing company in Fremont, California, jointly owned by General Motors and Toyota that opened in 1984 and closed in April 2010.
NUMMI (2015) - This American Life
WebJuly 17, 2015. NUMMI (2015) A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: How it made cars of much higher quality and much lower cost than GM achieved.
Goodbye, NUMMI: How a Plant Changed the Culture of Car-Making
WebApr 2, 2010 · Goodbye, NUMMI: How a Plant Changed the Culture of Car-Making. The GM and Toyota joint-venture plant, NUMMI, shut down on April 1, leaving behind a rich but muddy history. Here's how this auto...
Nummi: What Toyota Learned and GM Didn’t - Harvard Business Review
WebSeptember 01, 2009. Post. Share. Save. Buy Copies. Last week, Toyota announced it will close the plant of New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (Nummi), its one-time joint venture with GM...
How NUMMI Changed Its Culture - Lean Enterprise Institute
WebSep 30, 2009 · So, What Is Culture and How Did We Change It at NUMMI? Once observers accept that idea that NUMMI was, no excuses, caveats, or qualifiers, a successful transformation, the question comes: “Okay, so, how did you change the culture?
NUMMI, five years later: Inside Tesla | KALW
WebJun 2, 2015 · NUMMI, five years later: Inside Tesla. By Angela Johnston. Published June 1, 2015 at 6:32 PM PDT. Listen • 10:11. Raja Shah. Tesla's special KUKA robots can do four different tasks. This is Part 3 of a three-part series looking at what’s happened in the five years since the NUMMI auto plant closed. Read Part 1 and Part 2, or (we recommend ...
561: NUMMI (2015) - This American Life
WebWhat happened at this factory not only illustrates some very interesting answers to that question, it captures a lot of what went wrong in the American car business in the last 35 years. This is a plant in Fremont, California, called NUMMI. NUMMI stands for New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated.
Act One - This American Life
WebJuly 17, 2015. Mar. 26, 2010. The rise of NUMMI, or how one of the worst auto plants in America started producing some of its best cars, thanks to lessons learned from the Toyota production system.
NUMMI: ‘An American success story’ – East Bay Times
WebMar 30, 2010 · The answer was yes — even a resounding yes. “From early on, NUMMI was a plant that was competitive with Japan’s plants,” Shaiken said. “And NUMMI was at the top of the list among American auto...
NUMMI, five years later: Picking up the pieces | KALW
WebJun 2, 2015 · NUMMI closed during the recession. Just over a year later, the Fremont solar panel factory Solyndra unexpectedly filed for bankruptcy, and laid off thousands of workers, some of whom had just come from NUMMI. Only about half of the 5,000 or so people in the county unemployment program had new jobs.
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