John Horner

This from the 5/23/04 USA Today:

"Toyota's North American manufacturing chief, Art Niimi, says suppliers here
deliver 500 defective parts per million vs. 15 in Japan"

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/...kers-eye_x.htm

Generally a factory which has a higher level of defects in it's incoming
parts also ends up with more problem and/or marginal products being shipped
to the end customer.

It sure would be interesting to see the internal data Honda, Toyota and
Nissan have on this issue.

John

Kenneth J. Harris

Just what I would expect

"John Horner" <jthorner@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> This from the 5/23/04 USA Today:
>
> "Toyota's North American manufacturing chief, Art Niimi, says suppliers
here
> deliver 500 defective parts per million vs. 15 in Japan"
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/...kers-eye_x.htm
>
> Generally a factory which has a higher level of defects in it's incoming
> parts also ends up with more problem and/or marginal products being
shipped
> to the end customer.
>
> It sure would be interesting to see the internal data Honda, Toyota and
> Nissan have on this issue.
>
> John
>
>
>