ABSTRACT

A bestseller for almost three decades, Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time supplies in-depth coverage of Toyota's production practices, including theoretical underpinnings and methods for implementation. Exploring the latest developments in the Toyota Production System (TPS) framework at Toyota, this new edition updates

chapter 7|20 pages

How Toyota Shortened Production Lead Time

chapter 9|10 pages

One-Piece Production in Practice

chapter 12|22 pages

5S—Foundation for Improvements

chapter 15|14 pages

Kaizen Costing

chapter 16|8 pages

Material Handling in an Assembly Plant

chapter 17|12 pages

Further Practical Study of the Kanban System

chapter 18|8 pages

Smoothing Kanban Collection

chapter 21|16 pages

New Sequence Scheduling Method for Smoothing

chapter 22|24 pages

Computation of the Number of Kanban

chapter 23|10 pages

New Developments in e-Kanban

chapter 24|12 pages

Kanban Supporting Information Systems

chapter 25|10 pages

Cultivating the Spontaneous Kaizen Mind

chapter 29|16 pages

Mini Profit Centers and the JIT System