Toyota 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 a QC Circle competition a year or two ago inside Toyota. Toyota QC Circle Activi...
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Handbook 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 in discussion with Mr. Kato there is no one single item that ...
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