And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money. — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change.… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement,… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System. — Shigeo Shingo Copy Share Image
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Toyota Production System—which in the United States would become known as “lean manufacturing”—relied on pushing decision making to the lowest possible level.… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing,… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work. — William E. Conway, Jr Copy Share Image
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. — Shigeo Shingo Copy Share Image
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul. — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
“The small batches principle is part of the DevOps methodology. It comes from the Lean Manufacturing movement, which is often called just-in-time… — Thomas A. Limoncelli Copy Share Image
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by… — Shigeo Shingo Copy Share Image
The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
