Jun 4 2014
Business Intelligence and Jidoka | Toyota’s Simon Dorrat | PEX
See on Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
For the IT-phobic, a Data Warehouse is a database that makes historical data from multiple sources accessible for analytics. It is commonly used to provide management with Business Intelligence (BI). The process of periodically feeding a data warehouse is called Extract, Transfer and Load (ETL).
Of course, analysis is only worth doing on data that is complete and accurate, hence the need for tools to ensure Data Quality. The different sources usually have different nomenclatures for products, processes, or facilities, and you need your Master Data to integrate them in a single, consistent model. Finally, “OLAP” stands for Online Analytical Processing.
The first sentence in the article describes Toyota as “creating the precursor to Lean Manufacturing” and nearly made me stop reading further. It would have been a mistake.
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June 4, 2014 @ 11:16 am
Very interesting. A good example of how the thinking and tools of TPS can be applied to any area. I thought his most profound comment on the IT function was; “Also it’s true that as IT practitioners we sometimes can get out of touch with the experience from our customers’ point of view”. Every IT person should remember this. Most IT disasters come from this situation.