Toyota Production System Secrets (not so seceret)
October 18, 2009 by marc
Steven Spear has done a nice job of exposing the four core competencies of Toyata in Chasing the Rabbit. I can imagine how to do three of the four. It is the First one that stumps me: “Highly specificed work with error signals build into the process”–more or less. The question for me is how do we design error anticipating signals or at worst signals that let us know that the process just failed, so we can take action to mitigate the defect, before it has it concensequence. I will begin my search for the answer, but if you have the answer, please point me toward it.
Second: Swarm problems where and when they occur.
Third: Share the improvements
Fourth: Teach and coach everyone in the first three.
