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

successful. The other was led by a project engineer who did not understand or want to understand and took his lead from a plant ...

Introduction We have emphasized that lean transformation is a political process, one that requires committed, informed leadershi ...

Though the two lines produced pistons for different product families, the process used to create them was similar on paper. Mach ...

The next issue concerned the footprint of the machining line. There was not much room in the proposed A1 area, but the team want ...

the plant would allow for quick replenishment of damaged jigs or changes to existing equipment. They next described their accomp ...

They concluded the presentation with an update from the quality leader on the team. Due to the projected savings from various de ...

Operator 1 InitialLatheTMW GrindingTMW RoughMachiningTMW FinishCutTMW Gauging(1pc/1000) Initial MachiningPrevious Process A1 Lin ...

producing parts, interviews with operators, engineers, and managers led to the following overview: Equipment Downtime Scrap Rate ...

this expensive and knowledgeable mentor to create the showcase that would get the plant visibility throughout the company. But w ...

Another example of the technical differences between the two lines was the misapplication of the concept of one-piece flow by th ...

Can You Metric Your Way to Lean? You get what you measure! How many times have we heard that? If you measure pieces per labor ho ...

to look at their measures and ask two questions: “What measures are rewarding the wrong behaviors or punishing the right behavio ...

We are interested in creating motivation for innovation and continuous improvement. If you drag people around by the nose and d ...

We’re often asked, “How can we sustain the progress we’ve made so far?” A simple checklist for auditing is a critical measuremen ...

Standardized Work/IPCS Audit Form Standardized Work/IPCS Audit Form Workcell:Operation # Auditor IPCS:Are all of the assigned ta ...

454 THETOYOTAWAYFIELDBOOK Heijunka Audit Sheet Auditors Date: Shift: Score: # Question Yes No If no, please comment {be specific ...

or may not predict their actual behavior. For example, people can make strong claims about their lack of prejudice against minor ...

There are many things one doesn’t understand, and therefore we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action; try to do s ...

The internal lean coaches will learn from the experience, which will help accelerate the next one and the next one. People from ...

truth in each of these statements, Toyota has done a remarkable job of transferring many key features of the Toyota culture in J ...