Talk:Toyota Production System/Archives/2011

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Can we cut the now? I've added a source to the claim that Toyota is known as a leader in manufacturing processes for automobiles --Dilaudid 12:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Stebbins 21:57, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Older comments
No links to (7) wastes, only limited links to other interesting pages.

Quote in question:

Everyday I think about what he meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.

-Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, Founder and Chairman, Toyota Motor Corporation

The description of Dr. Toyoda's role at Toyota is not correct as he was not the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation but was President and Chairman in the 1980's and 1990's.

From the W. Edwards Deming page:

In 1960, Deming became the first American to receive the Second Order of the Sacred Treasures from Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. An accompanying citation stated that the people of Japan attributed the rebirth and success of their industry to his work.

The intellectual foundation for Toyota’s success was laid from 1950 onward by W. Edwards Deming. In June 1950, Deming presented to the very top managers of the Japanese industry his view on what must happen to make Japan successful in the world market. Kiichiro Toyoda, the found- er of Toyota Motor Company, was among the audience.

Mr. Tatsuro Toyoda

Mr. Tatsuro Toyoda, Chairman of the Toyota Foundation, Senior Advisor to Toyota Motor Corporation and NYU Stern alumnus, today received an honorary doctorate at New York University's Commencement exercises. Mr. Toyoda studied under former Stern professor, W. Edwards Deming, and went on to apply his total quality management techniques to transform the Japanese automobile industry and contribute to the growth of the Japanese economy. Mr. Toyoda also helped to create the W. Edwards Deming Chair at Stern, currently held by Professor Eitan Zemel.

About Mr. Toyoda

Tatsura Toyoda, chairman and CEO of the Toyota Corporation and an alumnus of NYU's Stern School of Business, received a Doctor of Commercial Science degree, honoris causa.

Mr. Toyoda is the Chairman of the Toyota Foundation and a Senior Advisor to Toyota Motor Corporation. He is also a Director of Toyota Industries Company. Mr. Toyoda is a son of the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation and joined the family business in 1953. He headed a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota in California from 1984-1986. In 1992, Mr. Tatsuro succeeded his older brother, Shoichiro, to become company president.

Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda's speech accepting the 2004 ASQ Deming Medal
http://www.deming.org/resources/pdfs/DemingInteractionSpring2006.pdf

Toyoda: spirit of Deming, spirit of future

Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation, presented the following speech as he accepted the 2004 ASQ Deming Medal.

The medal is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in combining statistical thinking and management that leads to quality in products and services.

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 * While the quote speaks well for Mr. Denning, I think it is not relevant to this article. The link to Denning at the bottom is al thatis needed, quotes can be added on the denning page if needed. Everything else looks very much like self promotion. I remove the quote again. -- Chris 73 | Talk 21:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Don't merge the pages
Don’t merge the Article on Toyota Production System (TPS) with Lean Production. Though TPS might be a subset of Lean Production (LP), it is historically seen a dominant topic that changed a lot in various disciplines such as engineering, economic, politic, law etc (sources cannot be named for this, sorry). I would either state that the cultural impact is important, therefore the Page on TPS should remain as well. TPS is in fields different from LP. Finally it is a clear invention in close connection to an inventor and applicant. Finally … would you merge the pages on “Internet” and “ARPA-Net”??? no, or?

(81.132.33.167 11:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC))

I agree - Please don't merge the two - TPS is a subset, or an implementation of a much larger Lean Manufacturing process. Not all TPS process are truly Lean, also they (Toyota) do have many "Mass manufacturing" techniques too, they were for a time - leaner - than the other auto industries however other autosites (Mazda - Kia - Jaguar) now have sites that are "leaner" than some Toyota sites.

Lean Production / Manufacturing should be seen as a goal or objective, TPS, FTPM, JIPM etc are all small steps in the right direction although following TPS only would not normally be the end of a lean journey.

(81.132.33.167 11:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC))

I agree as the two above! Maybe lean is an offspring from the TPS but today it has more than one meaning and is seen as a sort of product or process that aims at finding a way to cut costs/processes. Also note that everybody tends to write lean as "Lean" or "LEAN" (capital letters!).

I'd agree that Lean is an offshoot of TPS but I would also say that TPS is *not* a Lean subset. See http://www.superfactory.com/articles/smalley_tps_vs_lean.htm. --Jason Yip 01:35, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

What do we realy mean by lean is it only to cut costs/processes. No It's much more that, what about the undelining culture that is supporting all this ? Every body is doing lean but why Toyota is so sucessfull ? The only reason is there culture. So actualy Lean seems to be a subset of TPS.

Line of Balancing
Dear sir. i am production engg.of a MNC Company i want to know some information about Line of balancing of your assyembaly Line.

Digvijay Singh Production Engg. Starion India Pvt Ltd 11A Uddyog kendra Greater Noida 9312932642 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.29.46 (talk) 09:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC) HR role should be clearly described in Toyota Production Policies.

Rakesh Kumar

Advert and Clean-up tags
The advertising tag was on this article for some time. Several people have made improvements since it was first added. Basic references have been added and the language toned down. I've therefore removed the tags. The article needs a few more citations and I've added "citation needed" tags. However, from the other references cited, it is clear that the information is valid. Sunray (talk) 18:51, 25 January 2009 (UTC)