Toyota production systems
Toyota-like production systems attempted fostering by other industries
Toyota-like production systems fostered by other car manufacturers
International introduction 🌍
Plants 🪴
GM
Ford
Chrysler
Aerospace
Consumer products
Metals
processing
Industrial products
Most manufacturers failed to meet 'imitate' Toyota successfully.
Strange outcome considering how transparent Toyota were about the 'production system'?
Executives touring these 'plants' gives one a tangible insight into what they are missing or doing wrong.
With confidence and tangible assumption, they are doing everything by the book, it begs the question that "the secret
of Toyota's success must lie in its cultural roots"?
Nissan
Honda
Fallen short of Toyota's system standards.
Toyota in North America
Manufacturing/building 'over a million' modes of transport
Mini's
Vans
Light trucks
Why so difficult to 'imitate'?
Paradoxes within the system which are 'scripted'
activities
connections
production flows
Yet "Toyota's
operations are enormously flexible and adaptable" which is still a question with no answer...
Embedded activities persistently challenged and pushed.
Greater capacity/bravery for future innovation (new ideas) 💡
New territory
New methods