The first part of the paper describes a design study aimed at selecting a sweep and lean configuration that maximizes noise reductions for a candidate low-noise stator.
The recall crisis of 2009/2010 revealed an external misfit of Toyota's lean configuration and we use the crisis as a starting point to explore the interplay and dynamics of external and internal misfit, i.e. the process of how organizations may deliberately or unintentionally deviate from a given configuration.
Initially, foreign sales took place mostly in the US and Toyota invested in local facilities to replicate its lean configuration system.
In our retrospective analysis of Toyota's development from 2000 to 2010 we mapped out how the once strong complementarities between Toyota's organizational choices that were distinctive for the original lean configuration became distorted over time.
Changing these organizational choices mis-matched the other attributes of Toyota's existing lean configuration, and specifically the operational choice of Andon, leading to the worsening of built in quality and manufacturing performance.
These studies largely converge on the organizational attributes that distinguish the "lean configuration" which usually includes just-in-time production, supermarkets and kanban, quality systems, work teams, workers' multiskilling, people internal development and careers, collaborative supplier management, set-based product engineering, and organization-wide continuous improvement.
Shena Winning, 47, the group's chief finance director, says: "He runs quite a lean and mean configuration.
With a main hull that sleeps eight guests and eight crew members, the Ultraluxum CXL has two lateral hulls that can fold into the center hull, reducing the yacht's 24-meter girth to a lean 11-meter harbor configuration.
The configuration of a lean central jet supported by a stoichiometric pilot is similar to that of a lean premixed gas turbine combustor, but without additional complications such as swirl, recirculation, and complex boundary conditions.
Formerly the Coronet Pub, a dive frequented by under-age locals and the area's stripper population, it is all of 900 square feet, a shotgun configuration with a lean bar in the middle seating about 12, and rust-colored mohair booths bookending the front and back and running parallel to the bar.
A fully-coupled combustion code, 2-D, unsteady, is used to examine the behavior for highly fuel-lean configurations for which the binder slice is thin, and the diffusion flame supported by binder gases and AP decomposition flame products generates but a small fraction of the gas-phase heat output.
