Approach basis: the Toyota way founded on the client's needs
Optimize taking into account the theory of constraints that all goods and services firms face:
- Limited market capacity (demand) to absorb goods and services;
- Resources and supply uncertainty access;
- Limited financial and productive means and capacity.
The pillars of the foundation of the " Toyota Way " are:
- Just In Time production
- " Jidoka " " autonomation " : separate machine and human work (Implement low-cost automation, error-proofing, equipment upgrades and reliability improvement also applicable to human work) - QUALITY-QUALITY-QUALITY
The goals:
- Eliminate waste (Muda)
- Eliminate overburden (Muri)
- Eliminate unevenness/variability (Mura)
The " Toyota Way " foundation's tools are:
- Empowerment - team building - involvement of all employees
- Root cause analysis
- Quality at the source (rather than inspect it)
- Takt time optimization
- Pull flow (kanban system)
- Cellular work (client-supplier)
- " POUS " Point Of Use Storage
- Standardization, work stabilization and balancing
- One piece flow
- 5S workplace organization system
- Visual management and control
- Equipment optimization and replacement
- Quick change over / Setup reduction
- Maintenance optimization
- Value Chain & Stream analysis
- Layout optimization
The methodologies used are:
- Kaizen and PDCA or PDSA " Plan-Do-Check/Study-Act "
- Or with 6 Sigma " DMAIC - Definition-Measure-Analyze-Innovate-Control "
- Rapid actions
- Trainings
- Coaching
- Projects