Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. A bad system will beat a good person every time. We need to work together to optimize the system as a whole, not to seek to optimize separate pieces… Optimizing separate pieces destroys the effectiveness of the whole.

Ohno 40

Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

Deming Institute

AUGUST 24, 2017

Once upon a time, well before his name entered lean folklore, Taiichi Ohno graduated from industrial school and earned a position with Toyoda Spinning & Weaving as a supervisor. The year was 1933 and Ohno soon became well known for his mustache, added to further his image of authority with his direct reports, a large group of women.

Ohno 31

Ohno Deming Books Open-book 31

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Variation appears in how well the parts are eventually integrated into a system and, how well the system performs, day after day. with systemic explorations of “how well?”. Once again, quality is about use.

Quality 48

Quality Deming Ohno System 48

Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

The knowledge of how to properly experiment on system with multiple important factors to experiment with (nearly all experiments) has been around for almost 100 years. I published and presented (I think at an ASQ conference though I can’t recall which one right now) a paper on Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource in 1999.

Technology 40

Technology Ohno Deming Handbook 40