Welcome

Thank you for visiting ArtofLean.com. This site was established in order to provide the ever growing audience of lean practitioners with some fundamental materials related to the Toyota Production System. I was fortunate early in my career to have worked for Toyota in Japan and I learned many valuable lessons. As possible I would like to share them with you. (More...)

Newest Articles

• Monterrey Mexico Lean Presentation
  
• Avery Dennison Presentation - A3 & Standardized Work 
• Lean Lives on the Shop Floor - SME Article
  
• Toyota Control Chart 1950's Example
• Ohno Line Conversion / Kaizen Example
  
• Waste of Overproduction
• A3 Thinking Review - JPIM
• Handbook for TQM & QC Circles
  
• Masao Nemoto Leadership Principles
  
• Key Note Speech 2008 TWI Summit
  
• Comments in Assembly Magazine
  
• Industry Week Webcast July 18, 2007
  
• Learning From Toyota
  
• Eiji Toyoda On The Origins of TPS
  
• TPS Timeline of Selected Events
  
• Mr. Miyazaki Interview on TPS Strength