This classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production System returns to print in a new translation. Ohno delivers timeless lessons on how to effectively manage the gemba actual place or work. He relates stories from across his nearly 40 years of struggle to establish the Toyota Production System as both a mindset and supporting behaviors of constant improvement. In the book s 37 chapters, Ohno covers a broad range of topics and lays out the fundamental philosophy of kaizen (continuous improvement) that has made Toyota the most successful automobile manufacturer today.
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This book brings to us Taiichi Ohno's philosophy of workplace management the thinking behind the Toyota Production System. I personally get a thrill down my spine to read these thoughts in Ohno's own words. My favorite part is his discussion of the misconceptions hidden within common sense and how management needs a revolution of awareness. - --Dr. Jeffrey Liker, Director , Japan Technology Management Program, University of Michigan and Author "The Toyota Way"
While no one person invented lean, no one is given more credit than Taiichi Ohno. Access to his true thoughts and ideas are rare, and this book is the best and most useful of Ohno's work. Many lean students would want nothing more than to spend a day with Taiichi Ohno walking through their plant. This book is the closest thing we have left to that experience. Jon Miller has done a diligent job not just in translation but ensuring that the true meaning comes through in a readable fashion. You truly feel as if you are in conversation with the father of the Toyota Production System. While this book won't paint a clear picture of what to do next on your lean journey, it should be required reading for any serious student of the subject. - --Jamie Flinchbaugh, Co-author, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road"
This book and its translation provide the reader a wonderful opportunity to learn directly from the master architect of the Toyota Production System. One is able to hear, in his own words, the principles that have evolved into the most successful management method ever developed. Today, these lessons are being applied in many industries including health care in addition to their long term application in manufacturing. This book enables the reader to get inside Taiichi Ohno's thinking as he makes concepts such as Kanban, The Supermarket System and Just in Time come alive in ways that can be easily understood. This book will help me, as a senior executive in health care, better implement our management method, the Virginia Mason Production System. - --Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center
While no one person invented lean, no one is given more credit than Taiichi Ohno. Access to his true thoughts and ideas are rare, and this book is the best and most useful of Ohno's work. Many lean students would want nothing more than to spend a day with Taiichi Ohno walking through their plant. This book is the closest thing we have left to that experience. Jon Miller has done a diligent job not just in translation but ensuring that the true meaning comes through in a readable fashion. You truly feel as if you are in conversation with the father of the Toyota Production System. While this book won't paint a clear picture of what to do next on your lean journey, it should be required reading for any serious student of the subject. - --Jamie Flinchbaugh, Co-author, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road"
This book and its translation provide the reader a wonderful opportunity to learn directly from the master architect of the Toyota Production System. One is able to hear, in his own words, the principles that have evolved into the most successful management method ever developed. Today, these lessons are being applied in many industries including health care in addition to their long term application in manufacturing. This book enables the reader to get inside Taiichi Ohno's thinking as he makes concepts such as Kanban, The Supermarket System and Just in Time come alive in ways that can be easily understood. This book will help me, as a senior executive in health care, better implement our management method, the Virginia Mason Production System. - --Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center
About the Author
Taiichi Ohno was born in Dalian, China on February 29, 1912. He joined Toyoda Boshoku in 1932 after graduating from the mechanical engineering department of Nagoya Technical High School. He was transferred to Toyota Motor Company in 1943, and he was named as the machine shop manager in 1949. He was promoted at Toyota to director in 1954, managing director in 1964, senior managing director in 1970, and executive vice president in 1975. Ohno retired from Toyota in 1978. Taiichi Ohno is the father of the Toyota Production System. Taiichi Ohno authored three works: The Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, Taiichi Ohno s Workplace Management, and Just-In-Time For Today and Tomorrow with Setsuo Mito Taiichi Ohno died on May 28, 1990 in Toyota City, Japan.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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A must for the lean library,
By Jamie Flinchbaugh (Michigan USA) - See all my reviews
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Excellent, futher evidence why lean is so hard to copy,
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This review is from: Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management (Hardcover)
This book is a compelation of 38 short chapters that originally were spoken narratives with Taiichi Ohno. Jon Miller took these wonderful gems and then translated into English. There's also an excellent Publisher's Foreword and even better Afterword taken from Taiichi's 1st TPS textbook.
Some concepts are likely to be unpopular and/or counterintuitive, such as scolding subordinates in front of others or most people are wrong 30-40% of the time. As such, this book is not for beginners or junior associates to lean thinking and the Toyota Production System. Pro: -Covers a wide range of management topics that are applicable to just about any gemba, not just lean or factory environments -Shares logic behind philosophies, handy as well as interesting -Excellent translation, reads/flows well, with footnotes that explain interesting nuances that would only be understood if you were Japanese or if you were very familiar with the language and culture -Hardcover of high quality... has weathered my handling well Con: -Expensive book given that it is so short (about 130 pages) and many pages between chapters contain 50% white space Nuetral: -As a narrative turned text, there's only one simple illustration (in the Sakkaku chapter I think) and no photos. -Also the index could possibly be improved (e.g kaiaku, sakkaku, the individual Japanese elements of 5S, etc. missing). Perhaps a listing of all terms and their definitions would be a handy reference, but in all fairness to Mr. Ohno and Mr. Miller, I do not think this book is for beginners and does not affect the quality of the book or its message. Bottom line: the text is insightful and interesting, highly recommended. It was intriguing to read how things such as SMED came about, in Ohno's own words. I like to think that the book's simplicity/brevity will force me to think deeply about what I want/need to do and to seek my own answers and not those of others, focusing on the basic principles and building from there.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Maybe better than "Toyota Production System",
By Bas Vodde (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management (Hardcover)
Taiichi Ohno's workplace management used to be pretty hard to get, but John Miller re-translated and re-published it so now it's available for a larger audience. The book contains content from some spoken interviews, so that makes it somewhat strange to read, at least in the beginning, but makes it actually nice. This small book actually contains 38 chapters or which every one is one or two pages. Some of the chapters are extremely insightful in the way of thinking Taiichi Ohno used when thinking up ideas for the Toyota Production System. In this review I won't be able to go over all, so just highlight some point I really liked and remembered: - Misconceptions Hidden within Common Sense explains that common sense is often actually not the right way of thinking and that you should follow your uncommon sense and try to think outside the accepted standard way of thinking (common sense) - In "Wasted motion is not work" he explains that people make a mistake by thinking that "being at work" or "moving" you are actually "working". People ought to separate these so that they can improve their actual work. - He makes strong points to make sure you make a difference between machine time and person time. If the machine is running then that's machine time and the person who is operating the machine can then do something different. - In "Pitfall of cost calculations" he tries to show that you can prove whatever with cost calculations and that thats probably not the right way to make the decisions. These are just examples of the huge amount of wisdom written in this small book. It's absolutely recommended and one of the books that I will re-read again and again to refresh my memory. An absolute must.
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