Fixing Toyota: Quality Is Hard--Lean Is Much Harder

Fixing Toyota: Quality Is Hard--Lean Is Much Harder
ISBN-10
0132596504
ISBN-13
9780132596503
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
15
Language
English
Published
2010-10-15
Publisher
Pearson Education
Author
Richard J. Schonberger

Description

A 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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