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September 2, 2022

Lean Operations in Toyota Motor Corporation Essay

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Lean Operations in Toyota Motor Corporation Essay

Lean, Operations, Toyota, Motor, Corporation, Essay

You must post early enough to give your fellow students time to read your initial post and comment on it; then, you must respond to their comment(s) or question(s) regarding your point of view. This is a must!
These are open discussion topics. Do not think of these topics as questions you must answer. The forum is meant for you to express your learning and questions and conclusions you have.
Do not go to some website and copy and paste. Use your learning this week to apply your analytical skills in order to further your learning.
Your initial post should be about 800 words.
Formatting and style is APA. Ensure that all external sources are properly cited within the text and is referenced appropriately at the end of the paper, including your course materials.
Discussion Topic

Read the Harris article and watch the Videos on Lean Operations in Toyota Motor Corporation – and respond to the following:

Toyota is renowned for its TPS system and it’s primary goal of reducing all waste. Discuss your perspective on what contributes to waste and a few suggestions to eliminate waste in operations
Present your perspectives on how processes like JIT and Kaizen improve supplier and customer relationships

Global Company Profile Toyota Motor Corporation

Toyota Motor Corporation, with $250 billion in annual sales of over 9 million cars and trucks, is one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the world. Two Lean techniques, just-in-time (JIT) and the Toyota Production System (TPS), have been instrumental in its growth.

Toyota, with a wide range of vehicles, competes head-to-head with successful, long-established companies in Europe and the U.S. Taiichi Ohno, a former vice president of Toyota, created the basic framework for two of the world’s most discussed systems for improving productivity, JIT and TPS. These two concepts provide much of the foundation for Lean operations:

Central to JIT is a philosophy of continuous problem solving. In practice, JIT means making only what is needed, when it is needed. JIT provides an excellent vehicle for finding and eliminating problems because problems are easy to find in a system that eliminates the slack that inventory generates. When excess inventory is eliminated, shortcomings related to quality, layout, scheduling, and supplier performance become immediately evident—as does excess production.
Central to TPS is employee learning and a continuing effort to create and produce products under ideal conditions. Ideal conditions exist only when management brings facilities, machines, and people together to add value without waste. Waste undermines productivity by diverting resources to excess inventory, unnecessary processing, and poor quality. Respect for people, extensive training, cross-training, and standard work practices of empowered employees focusing on driving out waste are fundamental to TPS.

Toyota’s implementation of TPS and JIT is present at its 2,000-acre San Antonio, Texas, facility, the largest Toyota land site for an automobile assembly plant in the U.S. Interestingly, despite its large site and annual production capability of 200,000, a throughput time of 20 ½ hours, and the output of a truck every 63 seconds, the building itself is one of the smallest in the industry.

Modern automobiles have 30,000 parts, but at Toyota, independent suppliers combine many of these parts into subassemblies. Twenty-one of these suppliers are on site at the San Antonio facility and transfer components to the assembly line on a JIT basis.

Operations such as these taking place in the San Antonio plant are why Toyota continues to perform near the top in quality and maintain the lowest labor-hour assembly time in the industry. Lean operations do work—and they provide a competitive advantage for Toyota Motor Corporation.

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