In John Paul MacDuffie’s Management of People class we discussed the NUMMI plant in Fremont. It’s a fascinating plant run by Toyota and GM and they produced some great cars. In fact, I wrote a blog post about it last year here.
Well, it looks like they are finally shutting it down. Toyota, the source of many business school cases with their Kaizen philosophy, minimizing “muda”, etc. is reducing production by 10% and closing down the NUMMI plant. I will be sad to see it go.
Here is the article: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1236215&_blg=1,3621125.
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1 Brandon // Aug 26, 2009 at 5:18 am
I actually read somewhere that Toyota went as far as to offer GM to make a GM-branded Prius out of this factory to entice them to stay. I think they really wanted to keep the plant open, but needed GM as a partner to make it happen. I’m really shocked GM didn’t take them up on that offer!
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