All Taiichi Ohno Quotes
- Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. Calculated
- The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around Animal
- Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen Inspirational
- 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… All
- The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need. Company
- Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts. Course
- Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. All
- Ask 'why' five times about every matter. Ask
- 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… Believed
- Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system. Bad
- We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. Daily
- Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations. Existing
- And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes. Adding
- 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.… Ahead
- 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 apparent.… Apparent
- No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble Claims
- Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. Down
- My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. First Move
- 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… Create
- 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… Adding
- It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms… Brings
- 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… All