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...legendary Toyota production system would move overseas and practically live in a new plant for a few years. Classroom training is now the rule. And for the first time, Toyota's U.S. plants--not factories in Japan--are acting as the "mother ships" for new factories. A Georgetown, Ky., plant shepherded a new truck plant in Mexico, and one in Indiana is taking charge of training for the San Antonio plant. Seizo Okamoto, president of the Indiana plant, candidly calls the added responsibility "a strain on resources...
...more disciplined Toyota seems to become. Since the Camry started slipping in the quality scores, managers have drilled into the consumer surveys, reading customer comments to fix peeves as minute as the sound of the trunk latch. As for eliminating waste, says Gary Convis, president of the Georgetown plant, "we're never satisfied." Convis says Toyota has cut the delivery time for custom models from 10 weeks to 10 days, and that his facility has reduced some manufacturing costs by as much as 70%. A group of assembly workers from the plant went to Wal-Mart last year hunting...
Indeed, regulators in the free-market-oriented Reagan era seem convinced that bigger is often better. "Reagan's people have allowed the pendulum to swing much, much further in the direction of free and easy merger opportunities," says Robert Pitofsky, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. "Businessmen see the opportunity to put through deals now that they couldn't have ten years ago." A more zealous Justice Department blocked the merger of two Los Angeles grocery chains during the 1960s on the grounds that the combined firms would claim 5% of the area's food-store business. Today corporate...
ELIZABETH VENABLE Georgetown, Texas...
Harvard’s third varsity nailed a 10-second victory over of Georgetown and Delaware. Both freshmen teams came in a distant second to the Lions...