If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are. Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.” — Taiichi Ohno 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 a hundred… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
