Fixing Toyota: Quality Is Hard--Lean Is Much HarderA closer look at Toyota’s quality and lean manufacturing problems–and the powerful lessons and warnings they represent.
In the general and business press, Toyota’s quality issues are just that: quality issues. The industrial community wonders if there might be more to it: whether Toyota’s namesake production system (TPS), also called lean manufacturing or just-in-time production (JIT), has been sullied. To see why this is a concern, consider the primary objective of the Toyota system/lean/JIT... |
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