1st Edition
A Study of the Toyota Production System From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
296 Pages
by
Productivity Press
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the "green book" that started it all -- the first book in English on JIT, written from the engineer's viewpoint. When Omark Industries bought 500 copies and studied it companywide, Omark became the American pioneer in JIT. Here is Dr. Shingo's classic industrial engineering rationale for the priority of process-based over operational improvements in manufacturing. He explains the basic... Read more
- Mechanism of the production function
- Improvement of process
- Improvement of operation
- Development of non-stock production
- Interpretation of the Toyota Production System
- Mechanism of TPS
- Development of a "kanban" system
- Regarding TPS
- Course of TPS
- Introduction and development of TPS
- Summary
Biography
Shigeo Shingo(1909 – 1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer specialized in quality control. He is known for various quality techniques concepts such as Poka-Yoke , Mistake Proofing, SMED , Just in Time Production , and Jidoka.
