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

ask how that system can be further improved with some specific capability.
Technology offers one solution to help “meet takt time by flexible, low cost human-
machine systems.”
In Toyota the responsibility for bringing any new production equipment
into the plant belongs to production engineering. Learning TPS is part of the

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Philosophy

Meet takt by flexible,

reliable, low cost human-

machine systems

Performance measures

Total system cost, quality,

delivery

Principle

Equipment supports

people and process

Strategy

Selectively automate to

support lean process

Reason

Technology augments

human capability;

supports lean

philosophy

Effect

Automation supports

people in waste

reduction

Controls

Visual controls, TPM

Results

Flexibility,

reliability, waste

reduction

Tools

Poka yoke, right-sized

equipment, chaku

chaku, SMED,

customized automation

Method

Kaizen manual

process first

Figure 9-2. Lean automation process