New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was an
automobile manufacturing company in Fremont, California, jointly owned by
General Motors and Toyota that opened in 1984 and closed in 2010. It is a great
history about applying Lean by GM with Toyota’s help. How one of the worst GM
plants became the best one and how this was not leveraged across GM for nearly
10 years. Recently I got exposed to this great podcast where the whole
story is covered, really recommended.
Funny one is that some months after closing the factory in 2010 (first Toyota plant to be closed) Tesla reopened it to start Model S
production.
More info in the Wikipedia entry for NUMMI.
