Chapter 2
Foundational Elements of the Toyota Production System (TPS)
2.1 An Overview of the Toyota Production System (TPS)
In the automobile industry, the name Toyota carries a reputation of unsurpassed manufacturing efficiency. With their almost total domination of the auto manufacturing industry for the last twenty-five years, Toyota has built a foundation that has sustained them as a true manufacturing giant. That foundation is the Toyota Production System (TPS).
Over fifty years ago, Taiichi Ohno devoted his life’s work to developing what would become known as the most versatile and productive manufacturing system in the world. Based on a commonsense approach to manufacturing, it became a system synonymous with quality, flexibility, ...
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