- Part I. Learning from Toyota Preface xix
 - Background to the Fieldbook
 
 
 
 - WhyThe Toyota Way Fieldbook?
- How the Book Is Organized
- Overview of the Toyota Way Principles
- How to Use This Book
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Part II. Why Does Your Company Exist?
 - Define Your Corporate Philosophy and Begin to Live It
 
 
 
 - What Is Your Company’s Philosophy?
- A Sense of Purpose Inside and Out
- Creating Your Philosophy
- Living Your Philosophy
- Making a Social Pact with Employees and Partners
- Maintaining Continuity of Purpose
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Part III. Creating Lean Processes Throughout Your Enterprise
 - Starting the Journey of Waste Reduction
 
 
 
 - Lean Means Eliminating Waste
- Developing a Long-Term Philosophy of Waste Reduction
- Value Stream Mapping Approach
- Benefits of the Value Stream Mapping Approach
- Developing a Current State Map
- Understand Your Objectives When Mapping the Current State
- Limitations of the Value Stream Mapping Approach
- Creating Flow Step by Step
- Sequential and Concurrent Continuous Improvement
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Create Initial Process Stability- First Get to Basic Stability
- Indicators of Instability
- Clearing the Clouds
- Objectives of Stability
- Strategies to Create Stability
- Identify and Eliminate Large Waste
- Standing in the Circle Exercise
- Standardized Work as a Tool to Identify and Eliminate Waste
- 5S and Workplace Organization
- Consolidate Waste Activities to Capture Benefits
- Improve Operational Availability
- Reduce Variability by Isolating It- Flow and Standardization Level the Workload to Create a Foundation for
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Create Initial Process Stability
 - Create Connected Process Flow- One-Piece Flow Is the Ideal
- Why Flow?
- Less Is More: Reduce Waste by Controlling Overproduction
- Strategies to Create Connected Process Flow
- Single-Piece Flow
- Key Criteria for Achieving Flow
- Pull
- Complex Flow Situations
- Pull in a Custom Manufacturing Environment
- Creating Pull Between Separate Operations
- Flow, Pull, and Eliminate Waste
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Establish Standardized Processes and Procedures
 
 
 
 - Is Standardization Coercive?
- Standardized Work or Work Standards?
- Objective of Standardization
- Strategies to Establish Standardized Processes and Procedures
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Types of Standardization
- Quality, Safety, and Environmental Standards
- Standard Specifications
- Standard Procedures
- Myths of Standardized Work
- Standardized Work
- Standardized Work Documents
- Some Challenges of Developing Standardized Work
- Auditing the Standardized Work
- Standardized Work as a Baseline for Continuous Improvement
- Takt Time as a Design Parameter
- Importance of Visual Controls
- Standardization Is a Waste Elimination Tool
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Create Connected Process Flow
 - Leveling: Be More Like the Tortoise Than the Hare
 
 
 
 - The Leveling Paradox
- Heijunka Provides a Standardized Core for Resource Planning
- Why Do This to Yourself?
- Smoothing Demand for Upstream Processes
- How to Establish a Basic Leveled Schedule
- Incremental Leveling and Advanced Heijunka
- Incremental Leveling
- Points of Control
- Point of Control for Managing Inventory
- A Leveled Schedule Dictates Replenishment
- Slice and Dice When Product Variety Is High
- Leveling Is an Enterprisewide Process
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Build a Culture That Stops to Fix Problems
 
 
 
 - Developing the Culture
- The Role of Jidoka: Self-Monitoring Machines
- The Problem-Resolution Cycle
- Minimizing Line Stop Time
- Build Quality Inspections into Every Job
- Poka Yoke
- Creating a Support Structure
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Make Technology Fit with People and Lean Processes
 
 
 
 - Back to the Abacus?
- What Do You Believe About Technology, People, and Processes?
- Tailor Technology to Fit Your People and Operating Philosophy
- Contrasting Models of Technology Adoption
- Keep Technology in Perspective
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Part IV. Develop Exceptional People and Partners- Culture from Top to Bottom 10. Develop Leaders Who Live Your System and
- Success Starts with Leadership
- Importance of Leadership Within Toyota
- Toyota Georgetown Production Leadership Structure
- Toyota Georgetown Staff Leadership Structure
- Requirements for Leaders
- Group Leader Responsibilities on a Typical Workday
- Creating a Production Leadership Structure
- Selecting Leaders
- Developing Leaders
- Succession Plan for Leaders
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Develop Exceptional Team Associates
 
 
 
 - “We Don’t Just Build Cars, We Build People”
- Start by Selecting the Right People
- Assimilating Team Associates into Your Culture
- Job Instruction Training: The Key to Developing Exceptional Skill Levels
- Making a Training Plan and Tracking Performance
- Building Team Associates for the Long Term
- Quality Circles
- Toyota Suggestion Program
- Developing Team Associates for Leadership Roles
- Personal Touch Creates Stronger Bonds
- Invest in Skill in All Areas of the Company
- of the Enterprise 12. Develop Suppliers and Partners as Extensions
- Supplier Partners in a Globally Competitive World
- Short-Term Cost Savings vs. Long-Term Partnerships
- Supplier Partnering the Toyota Way
- Seven Characteristics of Supplier Partnering
- Building a Lean Extended Enterprise
- Traditional vs. Lean Models of Supplier Management
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Part V. Root Cause Problem Solving for Continuous Learning
 - Problem Solving the Toyota Way
 
 
 
 - More Than Solving Problems
- Every Problem Is an Improvement Opportunity
- Telling the Problem-Solving Story
- Situation and Define the Problem 14. Develop a Thorough Understanding of the
- Carefully Aim Before Firing
- Find the True Problem to Get the Most Significant Results
- Examining a Problem in Reverse
- Defining the Problem
- Building a Strong Supporting Argument
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Complete a Thorough Root Cause Analysis
 
 
 
 - Principles of Effective Analysis
- Seeking Problem Causes That Are Solvable
- Distill Root Cause Analysis to Simplest Terms
- A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
- Putting It All Together: The A3 One-Page Report
- Dig Deeply into Possible Causes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Consider Alternative Solutions While Building Consensus
 
 
 
 - Broadly Consider All Possibilities
- Simplicity, Cost, Area of Control, and the Ability to Implement Quickly
- Develop Consensus
- Test Ideas for Effectiveness
- Select the Best Solution
- Define the Right Problem and the Solution Will Follow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Plan-Do-Check-Act
 
 
 
 - Plan: Develop an Action Plan
- Do: Implement Solutions
- Check: Verify Results
- Act: Make Necessary Adjustments to Solutions and to the Action Plans
- Act: Identify Future Steps
- Finally Some Action
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Telling the Story Using an A3 Report
 
 
 
 - Less Can Be More in Report Writing
- Determining How to Use an A3
- The A3 Problem-Solving Report Process
- Outline for an A3
- Formatting Tips
- Final A3 Version of Problem-Solving Story
- Final Comments on A3s
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Part VI. Managing the Change
 - Lean Implementation Strategies and Tactics
 
 
 
 - Where Should You Start?
- Lean Implementation Levels, Strategies, and Tools
- Having the Patience to Do It Right
 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Leading the Change
 
 
 
 - Can We Avoid Politics in Lean Transformation?
- Leadership from the Top, Middle, and Bottom
- Can You Metric Your Way to Lean?
- Changing Behavior to Change Culture
- Spreading Your Learning to Partners
- Now Please Try and Do Your Best
- Index
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                    
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