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- Father of Toyota Production System Delivers Insights in New English Translation of "Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management"
- 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 .
- Research articles 2007-05-04
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- Toyota Stays Lean and Green with Kanban... Kan-who?
- Toyota is number three on Fortune's 2007 Most-Admired Companies list, largely because of its reputation as a super-efficient manufacturer with an eco-consciousness. But, despite all the talk of Toyota's sophisticated just-in-time JIT inventory system, the company actually relies on a more basic practice to stay lean and green -- kanban...
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Toyota production system: Beyond large-scale production. (Buyer's Guide).
- Taiichi Ohno $45; 163 pages This classic work is still a mainstay. The creator of just-in-time at Toyota reveals the origins, innovations, and ceaseless evolution of the Toyota production ... Taiichi Ohno ...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Decide to be lean
- DUALITY SCAN It's hard to believe today, but in 1945 Toyota Motors Company faced a real crisis. Competitors overseas were far more efficient than Toyota; the company just could not compete with forces like GM, Ford, and Chrysler. In fact, the Big Three were eight to 10 times more productive...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Six Sigma and Lean Production
- Lean production was developed by Taiichi Ohno, a Toyota production executive, in response to a number of problems that plagued Japanese industry. Mass production techniques, which were developed to economically produce long runs of identical product, were ill-suited to the situation. The Lean approach systematically minimizes waste--called muda--in the value...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Toyota managers know the road to Lean is by way of motivation
- 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....
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Lean manufacturing
- LEAN MANUFACTURING Norman Bodek president of PCS Press in Vancouver, WA imported, translated, and popularized many of the Japanese quality tools, techniques, and technologies that transformed American industry in the mid 1980s and 1990s. Here are some of his insights on lean and cellular manufacturing. Whenever I would undertake a...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Rethinking the car and manufacturing. (Industry Focus: Autos).
- "The industry of industries" is how Peter Drucker, the management guru, described the automakers ("Concept of the Corporation," 1946 John Day). Auto making, still the major economic activity on the planet, has twice redefined all of manufacturing in the last century and now seems poised to...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- challenger mindset of Fujio Cho, The
- Fujio Cho is a man who doesn't rest on his past success. And he has had plenty of it. Most recently, the Automotive Hall of Fame named Cho as its 2001 Industry Leader, noting that the president of Toyota Motor Corp. "not only shapes corporate policy for Toyota but...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Toyota Production System
- Toyota Production System Taiichi Ohno, Productivity Press, 541 NE Mh Ave,, Suite 108, Portland, OR 97232, 2002,$23 CD. The three-CD set of the audio book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is arranged in 60-minute increments and comes packaged in an album style case. The audio voice is pleasant and...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- A New Shigeo Shingo Book
- 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. Shingo reveals how...
- Research articles 2007-11-13
- Continuous improvement: Lean Manufacturing and other continuous improvement methods have been in place at many converting plants for up to a few years. Here's a progress report
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Firms cited for manufacturing skills
- Logan, Utah--Seven manufacturers, including Ford Motor, Harris and Merix Corp., were honored last week with the 1996 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing.Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize is an award/recognition program for manufacturing excellence in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It is named for the late Shigeo Shingo, a...
- Research articles 1996-04-29
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