VIDEO: Toyota Kaizen.

Great video describing Toyota Kaizen.  Toyota Kaizen (continuous improvement) is well known as world class.  Toyota Kaizen is one of the concepts that has made Toyota synonymous with high quality.   “The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.” ~ Taiichi Ohno

Kaizen Blogs

• 5S Factory Makeover.
• Becoming a Lean Supply Chain Professional.
• Best Kaizen Quotes.
• Deming’s 14 Points on Total Quality Management – TQM.
• Gemba Walk: the Path to Continuous Improvement.
• History of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Lean manufacturing.
• How Toyota Changed Manufacturing – Lean Thinking.
• Intro to Lean: What are the 7 Wastes of Lean?
• Introduction to Lean Manufacturing.
• Just in Time by Toyota: The Smartest Production System in The World.
• Kanban explained in 60 seconds.
• Lean Kaizen DMAIC Six Sigma.
• Lean Six Sigma In 8 Minutes.
• Process Improvement: Six Sigma & Kaizen Methodologies.
• Production From Start to Finish. – Toyota Material handling.
• Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota.
• The 14 Principles of the Toyota Way.
• The Toyota Way To Lean Leadership – Keynote talk by Jeffrey Liker. 60 min video.
• Toyota Production Documentary – Toyota Manufacturing Production.
• Toyota Supply Chain Management.

Continuous Improvement Quotes

• “A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.”  ~ Shigeo Shingo
• “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” ~ W. Edwards Deming
• “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”  ~ W. Edwards Deming
• “Quality is free. It’s not a gift, but it’s free. The ‘unquality’ things are what cost money.”  ~ Phil Crosby
• “Good is the enemy of great. That’s why so few things become great.”  ~ James C. Collins 
• “Everything can be improved.” ~ Clarence W. Barron
• “Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat?  The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity.  People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’”   ~ Taiichi Ohno
• “An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.”   ~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal
• “Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that’s work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that’s what continuous improvement is all about.” ~ Bruce Hamilton
• “Sometimes no problem is a sign of a different problem”  ~ Mark Rosenthal
• “Don’t look with your eyes, look with your feet. Don’t think with you head, think with your hands.”  ~ Taiichi Ohno