Toyota Production System

Jun 25 2012

Chula Vista leans on private industry

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How the city government in Chula Vista, CA, got help from the local Goodrich Aerostructures plant to start a Lean program in its own operations.

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Jun 21 2012

Toyota counting on exporting Lean to ride out strong yen, seek global growth

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TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. has been hammered by the strong yen, putting extra pressure on the automaker to stay lean and come up with new innovations to ride out the challenge, a senior executive said Thursday.

Note the statement that “…a line was extended in just 78 minutes by moving chunks of it and putting it together differently as though they were Lego parts…”

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Jun 18 2012

Art Smalley: Standardized Confusion » The Lean Edge

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Another substantive contribution from Art Smalley, this time about standards.

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Jun 1 2012

Hospitals look to Toyota automaker for efficient operating rooms

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More about TPS in health care in Canada, this time about SMED applied to operating room turnarounds. This is not the first time manufacturing techniques cross over to surgery: 100 years ago, through motion studies in operating rooms, industrial engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth developed the method by which nurses make tools immediately available to surgeons.

“Surgeons are using Toyota management techniques to cut time between surgeries and halve overtime hours…”

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May 17 2012

Tesla Motors revives NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA

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An article on how Tesla is reviving the shuttered NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA, with a production line designed by Toyota Alumnus Gilbert Passin.

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May 14 2012

Tera TPS – Toyota Production System: Recovery From Tsunami

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