22 Quotes by Taiichi Ohno

When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forward to seeing you again on the gemba.

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around.

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.