Manufacturing Industry
Lean made your way: one method does not fit all.
Industrial Engineer, February, 2008 by Lane, Greg
TOYOTA DIDN'T START OUT MAKING CARS ON A CONVEYOR line or establishing a groundbreaking production system, though today most lean thinking is based in some way on this model of high volume with basic variations on the same base product. Still, one size does not fit all. Prior to the creation of the company's famous automotive production system, which is credited to Taichi Ohno, Toyota was evolving its processes in a machine shop with considerably greater overall variation in work content.
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One problem that has arisen is people's awareness of only the highly publicized tools of lean that are based around this successful example of high-volume production from the automotive industry. One area in which these traditional lean tools...
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