Rövid leírás:

This book analyzes the purpose and relationship between the different elements of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and how they add up to a system that brings engineering and managerial solutions to businesses and society.

Hosszú leírás:

This book analyzes the purpose and relationship between the different elements of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and how they add up to an economic system rather than just a production system that brings engineering and managerial solutions to businesses. It argues how TPS can be viewed as a science as opposed to a tool-based technique.

Our society faces unprecedented economic, social, and environmental challenges. Thankfully, TPS offers solutions. These solutions are born out of Toyota's dissatisfaction with simple cost-benefit analyses and trade-offs. It challenges the antiquated model of economies of scale and radical individual asset efficiency. The Toyota Production System offers technical and managerial innovations that eliminate pre-existing financial, socio-economic, and environmental contradictions. The result is congruency between several factors and agents of our society that have conflicted in the past.

Specifically, TPS does the following:

• Financially, TPS creates congruency between the Income Statement and the Statement of Cash Flow by pursuing total instead of individual efficiency.








• Socio-managerially, TPS reconciles the creative nature of people with the mundane requirements of modern industrial work by re-introducing craftsmanship into industrial operation.








• Economically, TPS lessens the conflicts between economic growth and environmental stewardship by eliminating, unevenness, overburden, and waste instead of only chasing economies of scale.

These innovations bring financial benefits to the corporation, social benefits to the workers, and economic and environmental benefits to society at large. Each benefit supports the others as opposed to itself individually. The result is true instead of apparent efficiency. This is measurable, repeatable, and worth making into a scientific discipline, which can be taught and applied more widely not just to business haphazardly, but systematically to the broader aspects of our economies.

Study this book to fully understand the complex thinking and simple practices that have gone into the evolution of the Toyota Production System (TPS). The application of these principles have been adopted by the most successful businesses around the world.

-- Jeff Colvin, Principal, D3Strategy 

The book offers an expanded view of TPS as a system and explanations that will accelerate your learning and up your game. It is a great resource for anyone who wants to get a better understanding of TPS and how to use it to improve operations while simultaneously optimizing the P&L and the Balance Sheet. The author provides detailed explanations of the various components of TPS and how they fit together to create an effective system. Overall, this is an excellent resource for anyone looking to learn about TPS. Highly recommended.

-- Ken Friedman, CEO,  Bestop Premium Accessories Group

This book is for those of us growing up in the throes of Operations and either blindly or faithfully trying to adhere to the Toyota Production System (TPS) principles. Now, we can learn from one trained by the masters and go beyond the mechanics of production. TPS is truly more than a production or Operations system, it is an economic system. When explained in this holistic light, a new world of opportunity is opened to us. In his book, Olivier does an impressive job of explaining and defending this systemic visualization for all of us.

-- Michael Rowen, COO, Adient Aerospace

This book takes the reader on a journey into the depths of TPS and its applications in manufacturing settings, the author's anecdotes are invaluable in showing nuances of the TPS and bringing deep insights into?production?and the interactions of humans, the working space, the organization, and lean principles. The book offers practical concepts and a vision for how lean thinking can be applied over a wide array of processes.

-- Farook Hamzeh, PhD, PEng., Associate Professor, Hole School of Construction Engineering; Faculty Associate, Nasseri School of Building Science & Engineering; Advanced Construction Technologies and Integrated Building Design; University of Alberta

During the course of the past 15 years, I have had the privilege of working closely with Olivier Larue on numerous projects. I have personally witnessed organizations undergo significant transformations and maximize productivity, all under his tutelage. I have no doubt that his book will serve as an invaluable guide for organizations seeking to embark on the Lean Manufacturing journey, as well as for seasoned professionals aiming to deepen their understanding and refine their practices.

-- Eduardo Guimaraes, Vice-President of Operations, Duravent Group

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Tartalomjegyzék:

Chapter I: Production Systems? Contribution to Human Progress Chapter 2: Toyota Production System (TPS) as a system Chapter 3: The traditional mass production system and its inherent contradiction as a system of economies of scale based on individual efficiency Chapter 4: The Toyota Production System and its inherent harmony: Approach to reconciling income and cash flow Chapter 5: Manage based on a vision of the Ideal?True North Chapter 6: Kaizen, a scientific problem-solving activity Chapter 7: Institutionalization of problem-solving by developing experts: Learning problem-solving and solving learning-problems Chapter 8: Practical Principle-based performance indicators Chapter 9: Managing human development with "A4 and A3" Chapter 10: Reconciling economic prosperity with environmental stewardship.