I just ran across this story originally posted here:
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=88844

Imagine if every plant had this policy! 

It is written by SUNJAY J KAPUR. The author is CEO, Sona Somic Lemforder Components Ltd.

“A unique lesson from our Japanese collaborators that we have had in our company has been in the area of “Saturday Machine Maintenance”. This essentially involves senior managers participating in the machine cleaning activity on the shop floor.

MaintenanceTalk.com is back up and running after a very long pause.

Our previous blog platform could not stand up to hackers and bloggers (beware of open source software) so we have upgraded to an industrial strength Blog platform.  We want to thank Leslie who managed this upgrade project as well as a project can be managed.

We also appreciate your patience.  Watch as we rebuild our archives and catch up on new posts beginning later today.

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