Toyota Production System Tools & Technique

Toyota Production System Tools & Technique

Toyota Production System Tools: Mr. Taiichii Ohno of Toyota Motor Company had developed the Toyota production system. It is a type of JIT (Just-In-Time) Production system using the “KANBAN” pull system of production. It is also known as a lean production system. The Prototype of TPS systems is JIT and Lean Production.

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Toyota Production System Tools
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In the 1950s, Eiji Toyoda and Taiichii Ohno of Toyota Motor Company adopted a lean Production system based on JIT (Just-In-Time). Eiji Toyoda had visited Ford Motors to study the mass production system of the Ford Plant with the purpose of establishing the same system in his Toyota Motor Company. However, after visiting of ford motor company, he was not influenced by the suitability of the mass production system for his plant he asked his production engineer Taiichii Ohno to design a must suitable system for his plant. The system developed by Taiichii Ohno was later termed as Toyota Production System.

Several elements of JIT production system are:

  1. Small lot production
  2. Level Production
  3. TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
  4. Pull production system
  5. Quality
  6. Flexible Resources
  7. Cellular Layouts
  8. Kanban System
  9. Quick set-up
  10. Supplier networks

Two Major concepts of the Toyota production system are;

  • JIT (Just-In-Time)
  • Autonomation

The principles of Toyota’s production system include;

  1. Quality at the source
  2. Pull production
  3. Supplier Involvement
  4. Cellular Layouts
  5. Flexible resources
  6. Reduced set-up time
  7. Small lot production
  8. Employee involvement & Empowerment
  9. Equipment Maintenance
  10. Uniform production levels

The above elements and principles were the most important input to enhance mass production with zero defects. Rather than this one more concept also was important there to success the effective functioning of the TPS system was “Autonomation”.

Autonomation:

Autonomous defect control which depends on both automatic stop devices. It ensures that 100% good units flow to the subsequent operations.

Below are some mechanisms used for Autonomation such as?

  1. Baka-yoke/ Poka-yoke
  2. Andons
  3. Yo-i-don system.

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