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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Colin Fox, an early consultant in the world of flow production, had led a series of study missions to Japan that engaged Boeing’s top 100 or so leaders. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants. But all of this was 2002. One of them was the Boeing 737 moving line.

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Case Study: It’s a Shoe-in at Skechers EDC

Logistics Business Magazine

The Skechers and UniCarriers brands share a long history together: UniCarriers original brand Atlet delivered the first six forklifts to this American footwear company in 2002 when it was setting up its European sales and distribution network.

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Whatever it takes: One woman’s story of persistence in West Darfur

World Food Programme Logistics

I see pregnant women delivering in open spaces, having nothing to wrap their babies with once they are born’ Around six months later, in February 2014, I was in a workshop when unexpectedly heavy rains began and brought back the painful memories of that day. Overwhelmed by emotion, I collapsed.