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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

System 74
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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. They like the notion of using experienced improvement experts (internal or external) to drive projects with short ramp-ups and delivery times. Today we're 90% Lean and 10% Six Sigma.