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Steve: Most people don't remember that agile development, lean manufacturing and customer development was actually invented by Toyota in the 1960s. [...]

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The windshield is so low that drivers need to lean forward at stoplights to see them. And the side windows do not completely wrap around to the rear door, [...]

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But the consultants and academics who have come to specialize in Toyota's lean systems defend the model with a simple pivot, saying, Zen-like, that Toyota [...]

17 Feb 2010 Teaching Lean Without Toyota?. When I teach lean tools, I naturally reference the Toyota Production System and talk about their journey [...]

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Guest Post: The Role of Middle Management in Toyota or a Lean System lean Tracey Richardson is a consultant and LEI faculty member who previously had 21 years of experience with Toyota, starting as a Group Leader in 1988. [...]

Evan Hutchison/Daryl Curtis - Picture by Motorpics. Motorite Racing’s Evan Hutchison and Darryl Curtis have combined well in their first season together in the ABSA Off Road Car Championship, but the two former off road champions have yet to achieve a result worthy of their considerable off road rac [...]

The Toyota Production System is a paradox. On the one hand, every activity, connection, and production flow in a Toyota factory is rigidly scripted. Yet at the same time, Toyota's operations are enormously flexible and responsive to [...]

Their visit was not to see how cars and trucks are built, but rather to learn more about Toyota's “Lean” manufacturing ways. Lean is a term used frequently here at Lifetime. Basically, Lean is centered on preserving value with less work [...]

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A Lean organization makes safety the top priority, whether it's a factory or a hospital (where patient safety AND employee safety both matter). Here is what Toyota's Taiichi Ohno wrote on the subject. The Wildcats and the Illini all say [...]

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That was certainly a theme of the workshop… the diagram I have in my book from Toyota that shows Lean is a triangle with the sides of technical/tools, management practices, and philosophy (with “human development” in the middle of it [...]

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About a decade ago Toyota simplified its philosophy down to the two pillars mentioned – continuous improvement and respect for people. It is true that you won't find much written about “respect for people” but that is not to say that [...]

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Mike is a co-author of the Toyota Way books with Dr. Liker and has written one of the most important books of all time: Toyota Culture (available at chapters, amazon, etc). Further details to come a bit later. Posted by Lean Sensei at [...]

News this summer detailing the woes of Toyota's product design and manufacturing initially generated some negativity toward Lean in the mass press. Eventually, even Toyota's executives admitted straying from the principles that brought [...]

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Profeta's group successfully adapted the lean manufacturing concepts of the Toyota Production System to body and paint service. An active participant in the [...]

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Het ziekenhuis laat zich daarbij inspireren door het systeem dat de Japanse autofabriek Toyota tot grote hoogten heeft opgestuwd. Met het productiesysteem, lean production geheten, bouwen de Japanners hun auto's in de helft van de tijd, [...]

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TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp's new president, the grandson of the group's founder, warned on Thursday the auto industry faces another two tough years as he outlined his strategy to return the world's No. 1 car company to profit. [...]

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Productivity Press is the premier source of authoritative information on organizational improvement, offering the broadest selection of books and learning tools about lean methodologies, based on the Toyota Production System. [...]

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Do I need experience in Lean manufacturing or the Toyota production system to attend? No. All you need is the desire to look at processes and brainstorm to ways to make them better. Does it cost anything? [...]

I went back to Taiichi Ohno's “Toyota Production System” book to reflect on all the beautiful comparisons of a company with the human body. If we learn to see lean through Mr. Ohno's eyes, a strong image will surface. [...]

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Is “lean” a synonym for the Toyota Production System or Toyota's management system? With all of the reference to Toyota, I would think that is the intent. But there are many well qualified experts out there who make a good case that the [...]

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Talking about the new Toyota plant in San Antonio. If you have feedback on the podcast, or any questions for me or my guests, you can email me at [email protected] or you can call and leave a voicemail by calling the “Lean Line” at [...]

Many organizations choose not to use the word lean, but to label what they do as their own system, such as the Toyota Production System or the Danaher Business System. [...]

The elimination of waste is the goal of Lean, and Toyota defined three broad types of waste: muda, muri and mura; it should be noted that for many Lean implementations this list [...]

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Lean Manufacturing is a core fundamental for businesses that focus on delivering a quality product to their customers, while minimizing production waste. Toyota has a variant of this called the 8-Step Process that is very popular [...]