Machine cycle time and manual cycle time are still mixed up all over the world.

Only the Gemba Can Do Cost Reduction.

I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.

Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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