If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at 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
