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

A good lean consultant can get this payback. They can reduce people, cut inventory, and make the numbers add up. But what are th ...

Denso is Toyota’s largest supplier and grew up with TPS along with Toyota. Yet its Battle Creek, Michigan, plant was considerabl ...

the walls of one of the great pyramids. Though the EF symbol looks intriguing, its meaning has nothing to do with advanced manuf ...

Increase the “kaizen mind” of all associates. Create a common target (vision). Reduce costs by eliminating waste throughout the ...

with the production kanban, and creates the next 10 minutes worth of production. This paces the one-piece flow assembly line.^5 ...

Lean implementation is a learning journey, even in advanced stages. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. But yo ...

but any lean project should start with the business purpose: Who is the customer? What do they need? If the customer of the serv ...

426 THETOYOTAWAYFIELDBOOK Reflection Activities Most of the readers of this book will be part of organizations that have done so ...

Can We Avoid Politics in Lean Transformation? Changing to lean is a political process. There, we said it. Everyone knows poli- t ...

Politics is about power, and power is the ability to get things done even against the will of others. Think of different people ...

formally sanctioned rewards and punishments, and they can get a lot done. But the leader is the person who has a variety of tool ...

Leadership from the Top, Middle, and Bottom Change is impossible without effective leaders.^2 But where in the organization shou ...

were it not for the captain of the base, who authorized him to continue to use the workforce to run the events. The captain knew ...

In our experience it’s easy to get executives to see the benefits of lean and even get enthusiastic about it. But the difference ...

Stuck in the Middle Pressure from the top, from the bottom, from all sides. Welcome to the life of the middle manager. We’re usi ...

you draw a picture of these connections, for example, mapping the frequency of communication, it starts to look like a big spide ...

This led to more waste, and a separation between the goals of management and the goals of the workforce. We saw that at Toyota s ...

unrealistic in most cases, particularly early in the life of the lean transformation. It simply does not happen. External energy ...

Passionate about improving processes Leadership skills Strong interpersonal skills Excellent communicators (writing, speaking) ...

In most situations, the approach of the lean sensei should be somewhere in between harsh and soft. The lean sensei cannot become ...