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NUMMI BY Ben Nelson Gary Yin Michael MacDonald The Joint Venture of General Motors & Toyota
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NUMMIBY
Ben NelsonGary Yin
Michael MacDonald
The Joint Venture of General Motors & Toyota
What is NUMMINew United Motor Manufacturing INC.
Founding in 1984
Located in Fremont California
Joint Venture
Strange Bedfellows
Why Love is in the Air
+• U.S. Lobby for restrictions on imports
• Federal emissions regulations
Lets not forget about the UAW
The United Auto Workers UnionGM closed Fremont CaliforniaReasons for closure
Frequent strikesHigh absenteeismBad qualityOpen markets in factory
Drugs / Alcohol Prostitution
The General Motors WayMass Production Method
Factory is divided in two groups
Production, Production, Production
Union Action
The Deal Makers
Roger Smith and Eiji Toyoda sign the birth of NUMMI
A New World of Making Cars
The Toyota Way
Teamwork
Kaizen
Kanban
Andon
Education of Toyota Production Methods
Roger B. Smith, right, the former G.M. chairman, with Eiji Toyoda, the former chairman of Toyota, at the Nummi plant in 1985.
The Quality of NUMMI
To Little To LateGM was unsuccessful in renovating their
plants
Opened Plants oversees
Marketing of new vehicles
Lessons LearnedWhat Toyota learned from the joint
venture
Motivation
Workers and Unions
Works CitedGonzales, R. (2010, April 1). NUMMI Plant Closure Ends Toyota-
GM Venture: NPR. Retrieved February 7, 2011, from http:www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1254430405
Langfitt, F. (2010, March 26). The End Of The Line For GM-Toyota Joint Venture: NPR. Retrieved February 8, 2011, from The End Of The Line For GM-Toyota Joint Venture: http://www.npr.org
Ranney, G. B. (2009, January). The Lean Thinker. Retrieved February 7, 2011, from Http://theleqanthinker.com/2009/02/03/remmbering-nummi-gipsie-ranney
Wilms, W. W. (1996). Restoring Prosperity. New York: Times Books, a division of Random House.
