Toyota Way Fieldbook : A Practical Guide for Implementing Toyota's 4Ps
Figure 2-1 represents company purpose as a matrix combining internal and external goals as they relate to people and business. I ...
on time, and allows Toyota to get paid without holding enormous amounts of inventory. Similar lean processes can be found in pro ...
One can calculate the labor cost, but the benefits of smaller batch size are more elusive. In fact, if one could calculate the b ...
In fact, Toyota makes very large investments in its people, as we will further discuss in Chapter 11. For example, it takes abou ...
Coming from most people, we would just smile and say what a lovely and completely unrealistic thought. But Jim Press meant it. H ...
focus on all the essential elements. What do you want to look like internally and externally, in terms of people and the busines ...
How could he be so cruel as to raise the bar so high? Turning a philosophy into practice in spurts is tough enough, but making i ...
problem with voluntary wage concessions but concluded that he needed to lay off 1,600 workers to keep the company afloat. But he ...
The commitment is clear: Toyota will not lay off employees who are doing good work for the company except as a last resort to sa ...
Companies that have made this next big leap forward from tools and tech- niques to a management philosophy and a system start sh ...
Reflection Questions Gather statements of your company’s values (Hint: The mis- sion statement is one source). Evaluate the rel ...
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Part III. Creating Lean Processes Throughout Your Enterprise Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for ...
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Lean Means Eliminating Waste Getting “lean” has become a corporate buzzword. A corporate executive hearing about the success of ...
We then ask, “Are you interested in reducing your lead time? Do you have non-value-added wastes that you can start to eliminate? ...
ologies, rather than focusing on mindless application of lean tools [kan- ban, 5S (see page 64), etc.]. An unwavering acceptanc ...
processing step, tool, supply, part, etc., or just plain having no work because of no stock, lot processing delays, equipment do ...
Developing a Long-Term Philosophy of Waste Reduction In recent years there seems to be an almost maniacal rush to “get lean,” as ...
trucks being unloaded and then walk to the first process that adds value. The tour guide gives a detailed explanation of that ma ...
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