Taiichi Ohno Quotes
- Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.
- The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around
- Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen
- 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 all…
- The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.
- Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.
- Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.
- Ask 'why' five times about every matter.
- 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 a…
- Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.
- We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.
- Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.
- And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
- The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze.…
- Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately…
- No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble
- Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
- My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.
- The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People…
- All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect…