
24 ◾ Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition
Basic Image of Lean Production
Taiichi Ohno conceived the Lean system. It has been extended and deep-
ened by a series of outstanding practitioners, including
◾ Hiroyuki Hirano: 5S system
◾ Seiichi Nakajima: Total productive maintenance (TPM)
glasses we all wear, which filter and often distort reality. For example, at
a dentists’ convention, people look at one another’s teeth; at a chiroprac-
tic conference, they look at one another’s posture—different perceptions
of the same reality. Similarly, two people go into the same party, pick up
the same sensory data, but pick out different faces.
Lean and “ ...