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Reduced
Setup Times
All setup practices are
wasteful because they add no value and they tie up
labor and equipment. By organizing procedures, using
carts, and training workers to do their own setups,
Toyota managed to slash setup times from months to hours
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Employee Involvement and Empowerment
Toyota organized their
workers by forming
teams and gave them the responsibility and training
to do many specialized tasks. Teams are also given
responsibility for housekeeping and minor equipment
repair. Each team has a
leader who also works as one of them on the line.
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Quality at the Source
To eliminate product
defects, they must be discovered and corrected as soon
as possible. Since workers are at the best position to
discover a defect and to immediately fix it, they are
assigned this responsibility. If a defect cannot be
readily fixed, any worker can halt the entire line by
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The Toyota Way
10 Management Principles
Toyota Problem Solving Techniques
5-Why Process
A3 Process |
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