Toyota Production System
The cluster discusses the Toyota Production System (TPS), lean manufacturing principles such as Kaizen, Kanban, and autonomation, their roots in Deming's quality methods, and applications to manufacturing quality control and sometimes software processes.
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Is this it?https://hbr.org/1999/09/decoding-the-dna-of-the-toyota-produ...
I'd assume the Toyota Production System and their method of lean manufacturing.
sounds like this article might have been inspired by William Edwards Deming who was ignored in the US but Japan adopted his methods and that was a huge factor in their manufacturing success post war. Eventually all the big US car manufacturers basically begged him for help once they started losing market sharequality and reliability almost always comes down to the system, not heroic efforts of individual employees<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming"
The Toyota Way. Totally transformed manufacturing.
Isn't that pretty much Toyotas modus operandi:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_Way
Exactly. This is all about getting to root causes.I learned this working in a manufacturing environment for several years the was implementing the Toyota Production System and all the things that are a part of it like Kaizen, Kanban, etc.After I left I thought it was too bad that all that good process was locked into the manufacturing world. I've seen it creep in more and more, often under the classification of UX with understanding user flows and actual problems of usability on a sit
Toyota production system heavily favors autonomation vs automation. That combined with incremental process improvements and heavy bureaucracy has been a huge impediment
"it's so many sigmas from the norm they may as well be Toyota consultants from the 90s"I am not catching the reference. Can you explain or link to something I can read. Are you talking about Kaizen?
"Kaizen" is a process for improving your process. It enforces a feedback loop where anyone can point out an issue, instead of having policy dictated unilaterally by experts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System#Conti...
Yes, it's worked really well for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehic....I worked for a company that swallowed the (so-called) Toyota schtick hook, line, and sinker. About 14 years ago I tolerated some Toyota UK fossil coming in and berating me, in front of my entire team, for being a crap project manager, in spite of I