Toyota Production System (just-in-time, kanban, lean)
Sistema de producción Toyota (justo a tiempo, kanban, lean)
- Date
- 1950-1973 · confidence medium
- Place
- Toyota, Toyota City, Aichi, Japan
- Credited to
- Taiichi Ohno, Eiji Toyoda and Shigeo Shingo
- People
- 👤 Eiji Toyoda1913–2013👤 Shigeo Shingo1909–1990👤 Taiichi Ohno1912–1990
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A manufacturing method that eliminates inventory and waste, produces to demand using kanban cards and allows any worker to stop the line when a defect appears. It beat Ford's mass production on both quality and cost.
What it led to
- Japanese leadership in the car and electronics industries in the 1980s
- Lean and agile management and continuous improvement across every industry
- Just-in-time supply chains and their fragility during the pandemic
Built on
- Toyoda Type G automatic loom1924
- Ford assembly line
- statistical quality control (Deming)
- American supermarkets
Made possible
- agile methodologies
- total quality management
- global supply chains