Watch the keynote presentation from Margarette Purvis, President/CEO of Food Bank for New York City, who provides an update on their Lean improvement work with Toyota (TSSC). Efforts resulted in $3 million in reduced inventory of slow moving food, increased distribution of kosher food by 27%, 86% increase in fresh produce to the poorest neighborhoods, […]
New York state, with assistance from Toyota’s TSSC group, made its government more responsive and efficient through an innovative approach — quickly becoming a role model for other state governments. They were able to reduce findings from 7.3 to 3.7, and time to issue certificates from 137 to 28 days. They also reduced day care […]
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV) shared their manufacturing know-how and expertise with the Facing Hunger Food Bank in Huntington, West Virginia. The multi-month project was a collaborative effort and now has the food bank poised to operate more efficiently. TMMWV team members helped the food bank’s backpack program increase its efficiency by 600 percent. […]
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The North Texas Food Bank was able to increase the number of families served by 60%, thanks to an unlikely new partner: Toyota and their TSSC support group. The North Texas Food Banks’ Our Community Pantry in South Dallas used to be able to serve only 50 people a day on the four days they were open per week. But […]
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Just like their forÂ-profit peers, nonprofit organizations, including food banks, deal with a lack of timely deliveries and other logistical complications. Since these problems are just like similar issues that plague warehousing and manufacturing, lean and the Toyota Production System (TPS) are ideal strategies to remove these obstacles. Several years ago, The Greater Boston Food […]
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Two unlikely partners (Toyota and Canadian Blood Services), one powerful and innovative collaboration. Learn about a Canadian biologics manufacturer and its TPS journey. They were able to redesign the work area to reduce walking and reduce time spent in the freezer, which lead to one hour of time savings per day.
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By 2009, four years after Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005, there were 8,000-plus displaced homeowners in the New Orleans area still struggling to move back home, but who didn’t have money or insurance for repairs. Worse, they were being joined by an increasing number of homeowners who had suffered contractor fraud. “We had […]
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The lean principles of the Toyota Production System are changing how New Orleans and the U.S. recovers from disasters. With help from the Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC), they’d become unstuck, slashing lead time to just 60 days and dramatically increasing the number of quality homes rebuilt monthly. Read more at LEI: https://www.lean.org/common/display/?o=3016
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The success of Toyota’s lean management principles in manufacturing, healthcare, product development, and other areas is well known and well documented. Now the company is applying these concepts to social innovation in order to give back to society as well as shareholders. Read more at LEI: https://www.lean.org/LeanPost/Posting.cfm?LeanPostId=379
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Zack Rosenburg and Liz McCartney, co-founders of the nonprofit St. Bernard Project, have been rebuilding homes damaged by Katrina since 2006 when they gave up their Washington, D.C. jobs as an attorney and teacher, respectively, and moved to work full-time rebuilding homes in the New Orleans area. With help from the Toyota Production System Support […]
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