The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0144-3577.htm IJOPM 24,10 Learning to evolve A review of contemporary lean thinking Peter Hines, Matthias Holweg and Nick Rich Lean Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK Keywords Lean production, Learning organizations Abstract The application of lean thinking has
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TOYOTA MOTOR COMPANY: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE SUCCESS OF THE KAIZEN PHILOSOPHY Toyota Motor Company recently claimed number one spot in global sales in the auto industry. Many practitioners of the “Toyota Way” concur that Toyota is the model company to imitate, but recent years Toyota has seen a decline in their core competence of quality control. Weaknesses to social and environmental fluctuations have had negative effects on Toyota’s continued profitability. Analysis of strategy and execution
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significant in Lean Manufacturing process is ‘lean’ which literally means a body or a system that does not have any unnecessary or avoidable flab or float. Such flab or float exists in manufacturing systems and are manifested through unnecessary or nil value movements or costs that do not add to the final worth of the finished product but increase total cost of production. The requirement of such a stringent approach to production process arose immediately after the Second World War especially in Japan
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Ford Motor Company Analysis Introduction Ford Motor Company was originally founded by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan on June 16, 1903. Ford Motor Company has a very glamorous history. Since it was found in the early 1900’s, Ford positioned them as the reformer of the car manufacturing industry. Their mission was clearly stated in words, “began a manufacturing revolution with its mass production assembly lines”. And they rendered the corporate strategies matching with their goal
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The Case for Change at Toyota Motor Corporation Process Identification and Improvement Plan ______________________________________________________________________________ Unit 1 Assignment 1 MBA 6022 Lynette D. Capella University Abstract This Process Identification and Improvement Plan will begin with a summary of the Toyota Motor Corporation and core commitment to safety, quality and volume. It will also refer to the case study review titled “Toyota: The Accelerator Crisis (2010)
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Personal work Automotive-Toyota 30-11-2012 Contents Introduction Lean Manufacturing 1) Creating continuous process flow, 2) The pull system, 3) Leveling out the workload. Toyota Production System 1) Just In Time 2) Jidoka Long term relationship with suppliers Risk and Challenge 1) Toyota Vehicle Recalls 2) Environmental sensitivity Conclusion Introduction Toyota is one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers, selling over 9 million models in 2006¹on all five
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Topic: Toyota marketing plan Student Name: Course Title: Institution: Instructor: Date: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The world is dependably change, the interest of business sector distinctive step by step. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has been creating pointedly to meet the requests of their business. Toyota's prosperity both on the Japanese business sector and global market because of its longing to make items with high caliber. The Japanese accept that nothing is good to the point
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eliminating non-value added activities. Lean is a mindset focusing on the value creation to the customer with the fewest resources. That is to produce products the customer need, whether it is a product or service, using only the essential resources to create value all the time efficiently. (Liker & Meier 2006) This objective seeks to achieve by focusing on those areas that actually add value from the customer's perspective while aiming to remove all the rest excess does not add the value. Toyota Motor Company
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organization’s internal resources and its external relationship with its customers, suppliers, competitors and so on. Every organization manages its resources in three main areas: 1) Resources strategy 2) Environment strategy 3) Adding value Resource strategy includes it resources such as – human skills, investment capital and others. Organization has to develop strategies to exploit those resources in a good pattern. Sometimes innovative ability can be a resource that is necessary
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financial motivator. It can be in the form of bonuses, profit and gain sharing and incentive systems. 2. Enumerate and discuss at least 4 supply chain strategies. • Supply Contracts. In traditional supply chain strategies, each party in the chain focuses on its own profit and hence makes decisions with little regard to their impact on other supply chain partners. Relationships between suppliers and buyers are established by means of supply contracts that specify pricing and volume discounts, delivery
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