Homework 1 Toyota case Liyun Yang 1. Why have the Toyota’s management principles and systems been so widely copied by American companies? List five reasons and explain why you think they are important. Reasons: 1. Toyota principles pushed its employees to strive for perfection. Employees’ energetic attitudes of working are very important for a company’s development. Employees are company’s core competitive strength, only if employees strive for their work, the company can get success.
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crisis. Why was Toyota facing a recall crisis? Toyota was facing the accelerator recall crisis because the company and its management became more focused on growth and less concerned with the TPS principles the company had adhered to for much of its existence. Lean operations with a focus on the bottom line and a very lackadaisical support system in North American oversight as well as deficient TPS training proved to be a cultural disadvantage to a highly centralized Toyota management team (Gretto
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esbelto Elaborado por: Leonor Ahuja Sánchez, México, 2014. Publicado en: Recorrer juntos el Gemba… Mura, muri, muda son tres palabras japonesas que forman parte de su filosofía de mejora continua, Kaizen, elemento clave del Sistema de Producción Toyota y del llamado en occidente “pensamiento esbelto” o Lean Thinking. Mura, muri, muda, a las que yo suelo llamarles las 3 Mu, van siempre juntas y se enfocan en identificar y eliminar todo tipo de desperdicios, lo que producirá, en el largo plazo, cambios
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Успех фирмы Toyota уже многие десятилетия вызывает неизменный интерес у менеджеров и бизнесменов по всему миру. Надежность автомобилей Toyota стала эталоном для мировой автопромышленности, поэтому каждый, кто заинтересован в повышении качества товаров и услуг, так или иначе, знакомится с опытом этой корпорации. А ведь история Тойоты начинается не с производства автомобилей. В 1924 году японский изобретатель Сакиши Тайода создает полностью автоматизированный ткацкий станок, после чего основывает
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or efficient use of the resources. For the example, the Toyota Company implement a concept which is JIT (Just in Time) to reduce the cost and promote the benefit of product (Likert, 2004). It is also the oldest and first way by Toyota and still uses it now. After that, Toyota add automation concept into management. They realize that Toyota way is also the most important change in Toyota’s management. So, they implement TPS which is Toyota Production System become philosophy of production management
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Toyota Production System (Adapted from Slack, et al. 2006) Seen as the leading practitioner and the main originator of the lean approach, the Toyota Motor Company has progressively synchronised all its processes simultaneously to give high quality, fast throughput and exceptional productivity. It has done this by developing a set of practices that has largely shaped what we now call ‘lean’ or ‘just-in-time’ but which Toyota calls the Toyota Production System (TPS). The TPS has two themes
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“Respect for People” principle is one of the two pillars of The Toyota Way; the other being “Continuous Improvement.” Toyota claims that respect for people is the foundation for continuous improvement. Many managers seem to think they know what this “Respect for People” principle implies, and they believe that they follow it. The reality is that most do not understand this concept outside of the Toyota management system. Toyota states, “Respect for people is the attitude that regards people’s
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cost, increases monetary profitability by sharing the purpose of customer satisfaction. 2. Just – in – Time (JIT): simply means getting the right quantity of goods at the right place and right time and it originated from Japan after World War II by Toyota Motor Company (Reid & Sanders, 2007). There are three elements of JIT which are: Just in time manufacturing, Total Quality Management and Respect for people. 3. Lean System: Also known as Just – in – Time. Lean simply means the elimination of waste
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finance improvement 9 Tata Steel non-finance improvement 9 Conclusion 11 Q2. Discuss various Supply chain activities (in relation to Lean Management) in a Toyota company in Danish Industries can learn and use for improved performance. 12 Introduction 12 What is Lean 13 Lean supply chain 14 Lean supply chain for Toyota Production System in Denmark 14 Value stream mapping 16 The VSM process 17 Performance improvement with implementation of VSM 17 Conclusion 19
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