Gemba Press releases a new English translation of "Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management." The book is available now from Gemba Press at www.gembapress.com .
Document your process and make problems visible Taiichi Ohno is often quoted as declaring: "Without a standard, there can be no improvement." The principles of lean do not work well when everyone is allowed to choose their own work method or work sequence in which to...
During visits I've made to many companies and plants in the US, Japan, and Europe, a consistent theme often emerges. I'm told that operations were running at a certain level, then competition, or new management, or some other shock to the system forced a reorganization (perhaps with lean principles in...
LEAN THINKING HAS A GREAT influence on people's mindsets, including the following seven aspects. Lean thinking challenges habits. People do not adapt well initially to changes in the workplace. Lean thinking is a challenge or terminator for the If it...
This past September, I led a study mission to Japan, something I used to do on a regular basis, from study missions, miraculously, I found Dr. Shigeo Shingo, Taiichi Ohno, Dr. Ryuji Fukuda, Dr. Yoji Akao, and many more management geniuses. I could hardly absorb what they had to offer....
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Announcing a new hardcover Shigeo Shingo book, Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking. Once again Dr. Shingo will amaze you. Along with Taiichi Ohno, Dr. Shingo co-developed TPS LEAN with his deep understanding of how to improve the overall process of production. Dr....
Byline: James B. Treece Taiichi Ohno was an innovative manufacturing genius. But Toyota's experience at its new plant in Georgetown, Ky., exposed the flaws in Ohno's teaching methods. Only by abandoning those methods in favor of new ones could Toyota...
The auto industry is always marking some kind of milestone, but few milestones mean as much as the one we celebrate this week: the 50th anniversary of Toyota's arrival in the United States. Toyota's rise in the past half century is...
As usual, I enjoyed the May 2007 edition of Manufacturing Engineering magazine. Being a lean practitioner associated with the SME/AME/Shingo Lean Certification program, I'm especially interested in ME magazine's frequent articles on Lean thinking. The May issue's "Quality Scan" article, entitled Waste Remains the Enemy caught my attention. I...
Kaizen Products LLC announces acompletely redesigned online store for Lean manufacturingtraining materials and supplies. Kaizen Products LLC has partnered with Gemba Research LLC toproduce workbooks, tags, posters and hands-on Leansimulations to help people implement lean. Kaizen Products ( www.kaizenproducts.com ) is an online storedevoted to selling books, supplies and training...
Gemba Press releases a new English translationof "Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management." The book is available now fromGemba Press at www.gembapress.com . This classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production Systemreturns to print in a new English translation. Ohno delivers timelesslessons on how to effectively manage the...
When I described 10 forms of waste in the Quality Scan department of Manufacturing Engineering magazine in April 2001, not many people realized the importance of the three wastes I added to the seven originally defined in the Toyota Production system; 8. Workforce underutilization, 9. Improper use of computers, 10....
An unforeseen risk causes a problem to hit you out of the blue. Someone is assigned to get to the bottom of the problem and solve it--quickly! Everyone looks for what, or who, is to blame for the latest predicament. You're in firefighting mode. There...
Lean Manufacturing was first implemented in the previous century, so the story goes, by Toyota. Taiichi Ohno was a Toyota executive who abhorred waste, and developed a program called the Toyota Production System, now world famous and the model for many an improvement plan. The word for waste in Japanese...
The National Association of Manufacturers points to health care as one of several elements that put U.S. manufacturers at a disadvantage against competitors in other industrial economies. That's no surprise. I can imagine Toyota's Taiichi Ohno looking at health care today--with all the insurance coding and...
Efforts to improve efficiency over the past century have often focused on the reduction of waste, defined as processes and resources that represent direct costs and opportunity costs but do not add any value. The elimination of muda, the Japanese term for...
I'M ALWAYS INTERESTED IN HOW "NEW" ideas for business improvement come about and whether they are really original and new. For example, today there is the widespread application of lean manufacturing processes and tools in manufacturing, health care, the military and many other types of enterprises....
Tefen USA's Upcoming "One Day to Lean" Course Will Help Leaders Identify and Remove Waste from Their Operations to Become More Profitable, Effective and Competitive NEW YORK -- Tefen USA, a leading operations management consulting firm, announced today that it will be offering a Lean...
When Taiichi Ohno of the Toyota Motor Co. visited Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant outside Detroit in 1949, he was impressed with the idea of continuous flow on the manufacturing line. However, other aspects of mass production appeared wasteful, such as the high...
Lean had its beginnings as the Toyota production system TPS at Toyota Motor Co. It is a continuous improvement methodology that started on the shop floor, then migrated to the whole enterprise and is now finding great benefit in purely service industries, including healthcare. Taiichi Ohno, the father of TPS,...
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