Toyota's Lean Production

Term Paper # 105032

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Business > Information Mgmt. and Systems

This paper focuses on the Toyota Production System (TPS) that creates Toyota's lean manufacturing environment.

935 words () | 2 sources | APA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the basic elements of lean manufacturing and describes several delivery contingencies. The paper then provides a review of Toyota Motor Corporation's Toyota production system (TPS), one of the pioneering organizational manufacturing strategies of lean manufacturing.

Outline:
Abstract
JIT Processes
Lean Processes at Toyota

From the Paper:

"TPS is designed to eliminate all manner of waste, reduce inventories, and increase efficiencies throughout any production system or process. TPS is based on three simple objectives which drive all its lean processes which are: 1) to design out stress in the system, 2) eliminate all forms of waste, and 3) make production form efficient (Sato & Hoshino, 1984, p.37). These objectives within TPS have led to the development of several widely known manufacturing strategies and processes which are well known in their own right but are often not recognized as originating with Toyota's TPS."

Sample of Sources Used:

Sato, K. & Hoshino, Y. (Eds.). (1984). The Anatomy of Japanese Business. Armonk, NY: Sharpe.
Tsutsui, W. M. (1998). Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.