The System of production of Toyota (SPT, Toyota System Production, TPS, トヨタ生産方式) is a philosophy to organize the management of company in a flexible, nimble and mean manner.

Generally, SPT is known like Lean . It was created mainly by three men, Sakichi Toyoda, his/her son Kiichiro Toyoda, and engineer Taiichi Ohno which utlilisé the results of W. Edwards Deming and Henry Ford.

Terminology utilisee in SPT

• Juste-with-time (ジャストインタイム) (JIT)
• Jidoka (自働化) (English: Autonomation - automation with human intelligence)
• Heijunka (平準化) (English: Smoothing production)
• Kaizen (改善) (English: Continuous Improvement)
• Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ) (English: fail-safing - to avoid ( yokeru ) inadvertent errors ( poka ))
• Kanban (看板, also かんばん) (English: Sign, Card Index)
• Andon (アンドン) (English: Signboard)
• Muda (無駄, also ムダ) (English: Waste)
• Genchi Genbutsu (現地現物) (English: Go and see for yourself)

External bonds

• Ohno, Taiichi (1995), Toyota System Production: Broad-scale Beyond Production, Productivity Close Inc., ISBN 0-915299-14-3.
• Yasuhiro Monden (1998), Toyota System Production, Year Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time , Third edition, Norcross, GA: Engineering & Management Near, ISBN 0-412-83930-X.
• Jeffrey Liker (2003), The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World' S Greatest Manufacturer , First edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-139231-9.

• " The Toyota" system; on agoravox

Category: Toyota