and solving it to ensure production quality
standardization of the manufacturing process is intrinsic
to the tail to production systems success
developing and relying on standardized work tasks streamlines the production process
and ensures consistently high levels of quality
overall judoka enables toyota to provide
customers with reliable durable high quality products
that offer customers better productivity for their businesses
and in consequence provide a greater return on their investment
one of the foundations of the toyota production system is kaizen
this means continuous improvement
fundamental to the toyota production process
kaizen can be considered as both a process as well as philosophy
and regular scheduled meetings
team members are invited to give their opinions
and share the suggestions for any improvements
inevitably these meetings encouraged and create teamwork
in a typical year in our european factories
more than 3000 proposals for improvements are suggested and considered
perhaps this why the toyota production system has
also been named the thinking people system
as it relies on total commitment from everyone involved
tps is percent every aspect of work and builds respect
all team members are requested