Toyota production system : an integrated approach to just-in-time /: an integrated approach to just-in-time. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yasuhiro Monden.
• Other Names: Monden, Yasuhiro, 1940-
• Contents: Total Framework of the Toyota Production System; Primary Purpose; Kanban System; Production Smoothing; Shortening Setup Time; Process Layout for Shortened Lead Times; Standardization of Operations; Autonomation; Improvement Activities; The Goal of TPS; Summary Implementation Steps for the Toyota Production System; Introductory Steps to the Toyota Production System; Introduction of JIT at Toyo Aluminum— A Case Study; ; SUBSYSTEMs Adaptable Kanban System Maintains Just-In-Time Production; Pull System for JIT Production; What Is a Kanban?; Kanban Rules; Other Types of Kanban Supplier Kanban and the Sequence Schedule Used by Suppliers; Monthly Information and Daily Information; Later Replenishment System by Kanban; Sequenced Withdrawal System by the Sequence Schedule; Problems and Countermeasures in Applying the Kanban System to Subcontractors; Guidance by the Fair Trade Commission Based on the Subcontractors Law and the Anti-monopoly Law; Supplier Kanban Circulation in the Paternal Manufacturer; Practical Examples of Delivery System and Delivery Cycle Smoothed Production Helps Toyota Adapt to Demand Changes and Reduce Inventory; Smoothing of the Total Production Quantity; Demand Fluctuation and Production Capacity Plan; Smoothing Each Model’s Production Quantity; Comparison of the Kanban System with MRP; Summary of the Concept of Production Smoothing The Information System for Supply Chain Management between Toyota, Its Dealers, and Parts Manufacturers; The Order Entry Information System; Monthly Production System; The Information System between Toyota and Parts Manufacturers; New Toyota Network System (TNS); Production Planning System at Nissan How Toyota Shortened Production Lead Time; Four Advantages of Shortening Lead Time; Components of Production Lead Time in a Narrow Sense; Shortening Processing Time through Single-Unit Production and Conveyance; Shortening Waiting Time and Conveyance Time; A Broad Approach to Reducing Production Lead Time Machine Layout, Multi-Functional Workers, and Job Rotation Help Realize Flexible Workshops; Shojinka: Meeting Demand through Flexibility; Layout Design: The U-Turn Layout; Attaining Shojinka through Multi-Functional Workers One-Piece Production in Practice; Requirements for One-Piece Production; Resistance to Working Standing Up; Resistance to Multi-Skilling; Barriers to Autonomation; Attaching Castors; Smoothed Production; An Example of Improvement for One-Piece Flow: A Factory Producing Cabinets for Use as Flat-Screen Television Stands Standard Operations Can Attain Balanced; Production with Minimum Labor; Goals and Elements of Standard Operations; Determining the Components of Standard Operations; Proper Training and Follow-Up: The Key to Implementing a Successful System Reduction of Setup Time—Concepts and Techniques; Effects of Shortening the Setup Time; Setup Concepts; Concept Application 5S—Foundation for Improvements; 5S Is to Remove Organizational Slack; Visual Control; Practical Rules for Seiton; Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke; Promotion of 5S System Autonomous Defect Control Ensures Product Quality; Development of Quality Management Activities; Statistical Quality Control; Autonomation; Autonomation and the Toyota Production System; Robotics; Company-Wide Quality Control Cross-Functional Management to Promote Company-Wide Quality Assurance and Cost Management; Introduction; Quality Assurance; Cost Management; Organization of the Cross-Functional Management System Kaizen Costing; Concept of Kaizen Costing; Two Types of Kaizen Costing; Preparing the Budget; Determination of the Target Amount of Cost Reduction; Kaizen Costing through Management by Objectives; Measurement and Analysis of Kaizen Costing Variances Material Handling in an Assembly Plant; The Parts Supply System in an Assembly Plant; A System for Supplying Parts in Sets (the SPS, or Set Parts System); "Empty-Handed" Transportation Further Practical Study of the Kanban System; Maximum Number of Production Kanban to be Stored; Triangular Kanban and Material Requisition Kanban on a Press Line; Control of Tools and Jigs through the Kanban System; JIT Delivery System Can Ease Traffic Congestion and the Labor Shortage Smoothing Kanban Collection; Obstacles to Collecting Smoothed Numbers of Kanban; Relationship between Smoothed Collection of Kanban and Parts Delivery; Smoothing Schedule for the Timing of Kanban Collection; Inventions of Kanban Posts at the Production Site; Post-Office Mechanism for Outgoing Supplier Kanaban Applying the Toyota Production System Overseas; Conditions for Internationalizing the Japanese; Production System; Advantages of the Japanese Maker-Supplier Relationship; Reorganization of External Parts Makers in the United States; Solution for Geographical Problems Involving External Transactions; External Transactions of NUMMI; Industrial Relations Innovations; Conclusion QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; Sequencing Method for the Mixed-Model Assembly Line to Realize Smoothed Production; Goals of Controlling the Assembly Line; Goal-Chasing Method: A Numerical Example; The Toyota Approach: A Simplified Algorithm; Simultaneous Achievement of Two Simplifying Goals; New Sequence Scheduling Method for Smoothing; Basic Logic of Sequence Scheduling; Sequence Scheduling Using Artificial Intelligence; Diminishing Differences between Product Lead Times; Computation of the Number of Kanban; Computation of the Number of Kanban; The Constant-Cycle Withdrawal System for Computing the Number of Inter-Process Withdrawal Kanban; Computation of the Number of Supplier Kanban; Constant-Quantity Withdrawal System for Computing the Number of Inter-Process Withdrawal Kanban; Computation of the Number of Production-Ordering Kanban; Computation of the Re-order Point; Determination of Lot-Size; Changes in the Number of Kanban; Maintaining the Necessary Number of Kanban
• Edition: 4th ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (566 pages), (212 illustrations)
• Subjects: 658.5; Assembly-line methods; Automobile industry and trade -- Production control -- Japan; Just-in-time systems; Production management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466504516
• Related ISBNs: 146650451X
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