The first one of book offers about lean manufacturing should be Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, actually. Because this book is the book that TPS(Toyota Production System) is explained from Taiichi Ohno, the father of lean manufacturing. I read Toyota Production System book several times in my studentship period. It is more meaningful when
Standard work is the foundation of Toyota Production System. If we think to Toyota Production System as house, standard work is the foundation of the house. Everything is built on the standards and is improved above it. What is Standard Work? Standard work is the doing the same works in the same sequence and in
The more lean and more understandable the definition of lean production, the better it is. There are hundreds of different definitions which look alike in thousands of sources. I will use own definition on Toyota’s global website: “A production system based on the philosophy of achieving the complete elimination of all waste in pursuit of
