Toyota Way Fieldbook : A Practical Guide for Implementing Toyota's 4Ps
Go back to the history of Toyota and Sakichi Toyoda, the “King of Inventors” in Japan. The company got its start as a producer o ...
On one particular tour with some Big Three plant managers, one of the visitors commented to his associates, “Get a look at this. ...
◆ Will the technology contribute to a flexible system that can economically adjust to ups and downs in demand? ◆ Will the techno ...
people would make the right decisions at the right time. Standardized work was needed to have consistency in timing. Truck drive ...
Different logistics companies won different pieces of the work for the American joint venture and used their own approaches to c ...
I personally first picked up a commercial inbound logistics software program and brought it into the Toyota world for hands-on t ...
This is a different story of technology adoption than we see in most compa- nies. It is a story of a group working tirelessly to ...
Contrast this with the lean automation process shown in Figure 9-2. Yet again the philosophy is that overall waste reduction sho ...
ask how that system can be further improved with some specific capability. Technology offers one solution to help “meet takt tim ...
initiation of any junior production engineer, and equipment is designed and selected to support TPS. For example, all equipment ...
for doing work conform to the business processes implied by the IT. The sup- posed “business processes” improved by IT are mostl ...
a pilot of the software, they discovered that business processes in the plants were primitive and undisciplined. There were no g ...
and how many bins could be held in inventory. Kanban cards were printed to match the number of bins that could be produced. No c ...
As described in the Agillence software case earlier in the chapter, new IT faces a high hurdle at Toyota. The process used for a ...
add value and support a well-thought-out and time-tested process. Typically, the process is done well manually before it is auto ...
the emphasis was on factory layout. Specific designs for process equip- ment were outsourced to suppliers who took primary respo ...
In late 2002 the SE and DA draft process was completed, and in early 2004 a pilot was selected and implemented. The initial proc ...
216 THETOYOTAWAYFIELDBOOK Reflect and Learn from the Process Is your company caught up in the technology race? Do you believe t ...
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