The Toyota Way

The Toyota Way is how Toyota works.  This is the keynote talk given by Jeffrey Liker at the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Lean conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  Toyota is a great company to benchmark because there is so much information on them.  Toyota has a world class supply chain and definitely worth researching.  If you aren’t well versed with Toyota then do research on the Toyota Production System or TPS.  A great deal of information will come up that will greatly help with supply chain optimization.  Also do research on Taiichi Ohno who is the father of the Toyota Production System.  You will start to uncover a great deal of information with these simple searches.  Have a great day.

Other Lean videos you may find interesting:

• 5s Office to 5s Manufacturing. Lean Production System.
• Assortment of Lean videos.
• Becoming a Lean Supply Chain Professional.
• Best Kaizen Quotes.
• Gemba Walk: the Path to Continuous Improvement.
• How Toyota Changed Manufacturing – Lean Thinking.
• Introduction to Lean Manufacturing.
• Lean Kaizen DMAIC Six Sigma.
• The Kaizen Way: ONE SMALL STEP CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
• Toyota vs Tesla – Supply Chain.
• Toyota Way–‘The 14 Principles of the Toyota Way’
• What is Supply Chain Management?
• Why Lean Fails.

Quotes form Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System (TPS)

“Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.”  ~ Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System

“Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.” ~ Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System.

“Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.” ~ Taiichi Ohno

“If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way.  You also need to change the way you think.  You need to change how you look at things.” ~ Taiichi Ohno