Taiichi Ohno As father of Lean Manufacturing‚ Taiichi Ohno maintained a very low profile in the business world. Taiichi Ohno is Japanese born in China‚ and graduated from Nagoya Technical High School. He never went to college or attended any higher education than high school. He was one of the first employees in the Toyota family. He later moved up to Toyota Motor’s and slowly became an executive of the corporation. During the time Toyota was on the brink of bankruptcy‚ due to they could not afford
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excellently. Lean Operations are used in the manufacturing industry and especially in automotive manufacturing units. Two of the manufacturing units that use this strategy of lean operations are Toyota Motor Company and Pratt and Whitney Aircraft. Taiichi Ohno of Toyota Motor Company developed the standardization of work and also the assembly line (Liker‚ 2004). Pratt and Whitney Aircrafts also implemented the lean manufacturing to their process and saw the difference in the outcome of the production
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Lean Production / Lean Manufacturing| "The Machine that changed..." http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HH2u6Kd9ZXM... This is the html version of the file http://www.dau.mil/educdept/mm_dept_resources/navbar/lean/02tch-mtctw.asp. Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. Lean Production / Lean Manufacturing | "The Machine that changed..." Lean Production Lean Production - TOC Introduction What is "Lean" "The Machine that changed the
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construction is an efficient way to design production system in order to eliminate the waste of material‚ time and bring more value to the project. The article used the example of Toyota production system to explain the lean construction. The engineer Taiichi Ohno’s pursuit of perfection and his redesigned production process reduced the cost and improved the value of the new production system. The article compares the lean construction with current practice in Toyota. As the result they have different
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quick turnaround is by holding inventory‚ but inventory costs can easily become prohibitive. A wiser approach is to make your production agile‚ able to adapt to changing customer demands. This can only be done by JUST IN TIME (JIT) philosophy. Taiichi Ohno‚ a former shop manager and eventually vice president of Toyota Motor Company‚ is the individual credited most for the with the development of just-in-time. It is a term used to describe the Toyota production system‚ is widely recognized today as
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There were several advantages of Toyota’s manufacturing system when compared with conventional manufacturing system. Ohno Taiichi was the person responsible in helping Toyota shift from the established method of manufacturing automobiles set by Ford. The basic philosophy was to produce everything in mass quantity to gain maximum economies of scale. The logic was to spread the fixed cost over the production line and benefit from lower cost. Another characteristic of this philosophy was to make each
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Production System or Just in Time Production‚ Henry Ford and other predecessors. The lineage of Lean manufacturing and Just In Time (JIT) Production goes back to Eli Whitney and the concept of interchangeable part in the 1850’s. It was finally when Taichii Ohno and Shigeo Shingo introduced Toyota Production System which in true sense talked about lean manufacturing. Todd(2000) defines lean production as “initiative‚ whose goal is to reduce the waste in human effort‚ inventory‚ time to market‚and manufacturing
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DEVELOPING AND BUILDING A LEAN BASED RFID ELECTRONIC KANBAN PROTOTYPE A Thesis presented to The Faculty of California Polytechnic State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Industrial Engineering by Ryan T. Chang June 2012 © 2012 Ryan Chang ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP ii TITLE DEVELOPING AND BUILDING A LEAN BASED RFID ELECTRONIC KANBAN PROTOTYPE AUTHOR: Ryan T. Chang DATE SUBMITTED: June
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Table of Contents KANBAN IN SOFTWARE 6 ABSTRACT 6 Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION 6 1.1 Lean Thinking 8 1.2 Applying in Software Development 9 1.3 Kanban for Software 9 1.4 Scope of the study 11 Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 11 2.1 Lean Manufacturing vs. Lean Development 11 2.2 Applying Lean in Software Development 12 2.3 Kanban 13 2.4 Waterfall methodology 16 Chapter 3: Methodology 19 Chapter 4: ANALYSIS 21 Chapter 5:- Findings 24 Chapter 6:- Conclusions
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A PROJECT REPORT On “JAPANESE MANAGEMENT” At Ingersoll Rand India Ltd 21-30‚ GIDC Estate‚ Industrial Technologies Naroda‚ Ahmedabad‚ Gujarat Submitted to Digital Computers (01964) Sikkim Manipal University By Shah Jagat Maheshbhai (520864056) in partial fulfillment o f the requirement for the award of the degree Of MBA IN [Operations Management] 1 Acknowledgement This “Japanese Management” is the outcome of sincere and positive contribution of various individuals. I cannot justifiably translate
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