Toyota Way Fieldbook : A Practical Guide for Implementing Toyota's 4Ps

approach to implementation, the total effect to date, and unresolved problems with accompanying actions. All proposal, problem-s ...

whether a problem should be addressed. If agreement to move forward is estab- lished, the next level of the proposal stage comes ...

up many questions to ensure that the problem has been correctly identified and that approval to move forward is warranted. After ...

the date, and any other relevant information such as plant or department. Then the page is divided into two parts down the middl ...

◆ Use line graphs in the problem description section (the first section) because they show the trend of the issue. Do not use Pa ...

384 THETOYOTAWAYFIELDBOOK This document is printed across two pages here for clarity, but it is in fact a single one-page docume ...

Chapter 18. Telling the Story Using an A3 Report 385 Date: 6/9/2004 Prepared by: David Meier REPORT FORM Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 We ...

Many people look at this A3 and immediately think that it is “too busy” or “complicated.” This is a normal reaction to a very in ...

We started to see immediate results when we implemented the temporary countermeasures [point to the first graph of units per hou ...

room should have seen it and agreed to it. At Toyota it is common to have just five minutes to present the report before a decis ...

Chapter 18. Telling the Story Using an A3 Report 389 c. Use arrows to show the flow of information and lead the reader’s eye alo ...

d. Explain whether you will pick up another problem and what it will be. Review the completed A3 with others to solicit feedbac ...

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Where Should You Start? You know your company needs an injection of lean. There’s waste everywhere. Upon serious reflection, you ...

People.You can work to train and indoctrinate your people into the new lean way of thinking, directly effecting culture change. ...

Conduct workshop: ◆ Monday: Give an overview of lean and teach any special tools needed for that week. Begin to collect data on ...

clearing the floor of the current process, painting the floor, then moving equipment back in the new layout. ◆ Thursday: Evaluat ...

Management is enlightened on the speed with which things can be accom- plished if a concerted effort is applied. Amazing things ...

and receiving docks near the point of use, and basically remaking the place. The dramatic savings led to great management attent ...