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Toyota Production System, From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint - Essay and Term Paper
Review of
A Study of the Toyota Production System,
From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
By Shigeo Shingo
William H. McKnight Jr.
MCT 603C
Dr. Gordon Minty
This book provides a very interesting comparison of the Toyota Manufacturing System as it is designed and the concept that many people have of what it is. Dr. Shingo presents a strong and well founded explanation of TMS, and that it is not just Kan Ban. One of the key foundations of TMS is that it incorporates a basic concept of waste reduction and one tool is Kan Ban. The primary tool discussed is what Dr. Shingo coined as Single Minute Exchange of Dies or SMED. SMED was developed through a series of challenges placed before him over a period of several years. One of the first challenges that had been placed in front of him in 1970 was to reduce a change over time from 4 hours to under 2, since that was the time that German workers reported at a Volkswagen plant. ......
Total Word Count: 2252
Page Count: 9 (250 words a page / double spaced)
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