he Toyota Production System, which was developed from the late 1940s through the mid-1970s by top Toyota executives to improve the company’s manufacturing processes, is now used by numerous companies ...

The Toyota Production System (TPS) has been the model for Lean implementation across the world since it was developed and refined by Taiichi Ohno in the 1960s and 1970s. Countless books and articles ...

There’s been a problem simmering in the lean world for years. The problem is the overwhelmingly high failure rate. What failure means is subject to interpretation but the available surveys and studies ...

No survey of modern automotive manufacturing can possibly overlook the “lean” techniques and cultural values developed in Toyota’s Production System, so it was inevitable that The Magical Mystery ...

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