Chapter 5
Waste Management … Improving the Manufacturing Process One Kaizen at a Time
5.1 Gap Management
The Toyota Production System was developed as a commonsense approach to improve productivity. It is those two words, improve productivity, that hold the key to so much about TPS and how it works. TPS is not specifically developed to build a better car, no matter how well built they are. TPS is designed with people, processes, and operations as the input, and quality as the output. The simplicity of the equation is the exact reason why TPS will work for anything. It is designed to produce common sense, not an automobile. Fortunately, Toyota does not have a patent on common sense.
The goal of TPS, in the broadest of terms, is to understand ...
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