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Kevin Meyer Kevin is president of a medical device company and consults and speaks on a variety of lean enterprise topics. - More about Kevin |
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Can you provide a reference? That would be great. I have made this arguement with the Toyota haters (foreign brand haters in general too). It would help with my efforts at proselytization if I had a reference. Thanks for the post.
Posted by: Bruce Baker | 06 July 2009 at 07:03 AM
The article linked to at Speed.com says that the vehicles were rated by domestic content AND sales volume, which is why the "big three" fell below the Camry this time. Canadian content was also classified as "American."
The full details are at cars.com.
Posted by: Mike | 06 July 2009 at 12:36 PM
You have to be careful with the methodology in that study. It's not that a Camry has MORE content individually than other cars. Please present the context Kevin.
Posted by: Mark Graban | 06 July 2009 at 02:47 PM
What's the difference between the GMC Sierra and the Chevy Silverado? Apart from trim packages, they should be pretty much identical domestic content. Heck, they even come off the same assembly line! But here they're ranked #5 and #8?!?
Posted by: Mike | 07 July 2009 at 08:41 AM
Mike- the difference is sales. The study Kevin was referring to weighted two factors:
1) sales
2) percentage American content.
I was hoping he would clarify that.
Posted by: Mark Graban | 07 July 2009 at 04:31 PM
Makes sense. After all, as James Womack points out, long supply chains are inconsistent with genuine lean principles. Ideally, for lean production, the suppliers are scaled to production flow and sited as close as possible to the point of consumption, just as individual machines are scaled to production flow *within* the factory.
Posted by: Kevin Carson | 07 July 2009 at 05:28 PM
Parts content is one thing, but what about engineering and design content? How would the survey look if you applied white collar content to the doestic parts content? Isn't most Toyota design & engineering done in Japan?
Posted by: Jeff Holloway | 09 July 2009 at 07:49 AM
Actually a lot of the design, or at least design is done at two Toyota design centers in California and Michigan...
http://www.toyota.com/about/our_business/operations/design/
Posted by: Kevin | 09 July 2009 at 07:52 AM
For a look at different car resale values, check out:
http://www.peterdolph.com/2009/09/should-you-buy-american-car.html
Posted by: gandolph | 02 October 2009 at 11:42 AM