October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
13h 7m
English
I plan to cut down on the slack time within work processes and in the shipping of parts and materials as much as possible. As the basic principle in realizing this plan, I will uphold the “just in time” approach. The guiding rule is not to have goods shipped too early or too late.
—Kiichiro Toyoda, founder of Toyota Motor Company, 1938
The most visible product of Toyota’s quest for excellence is its manufacturing philosophy, called the Toyota Production System (TPS). The importance of TPS in revolutionizing manufacturing cannot be overstated. The mass production system often associated with Henry Ford was a smashing success at the time. The focus was on large-volume production ...
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