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Jidoka - Part 2Jidoka –Part 2

The Lean Edge:What about Jidoka? By The Lean Edge,–Last updated:Wednesday,August 4,2010 –Save &Share –Leave a comment

“For about ten years now the Lean movement has been a whole lot of JIT and a “whole little” Jidoka. Both concepts are fundamental to TPS,and can be [...]

Jidoka - Part 1Jidoka –Part 1

The Lean Edge:What about Jidoka? By The Lean Edge,–Last updated:Wednesday,August 4,2010 –Save &Share –Leave a comment

“For about ten years now the Lean movement has been a whole lot of JIT and a “whole little” Jidoka. Both concepts are fundamental to TPS,and can be [...]

Toyota Control Charts 1950's ExampleToyota Control Charts 1950′s Example

Quality control has a long history within both Toyoda the parent loom company and Toyota the automotive manufacturing company. Sakichi Toyoda started making looms in the late 1890’s. His work culminated in the impressive 1924 Type G Auto Loom (click for image of sample machines).

The Type G loom was noted for its non [...]

Toyota QC Circle ExampleToyota QC Circle Example

Here is a detailed example of what a QC Circle activity looks like in Toyota these days. The following link will take you over to the blog part of the A3Thinking.com website I set up with Professor Durward Sobek. Inside the link is a 24 slide presentation that won a plant level award in [...]

Handbook for TQM and QC CirclesHandbook for TQM and QC Circles

Isao Kato is the retired manager for the old Education and Training Division of Toyota Motor Corporation. I spent some time interviewing Mr. Kato when Professor Sobek and I set out to draft A3 Thinking. In particular I was curious about some of the intellectual roots of A3 Reports inside Toyota. As I learned [...]