Toyota Motor Manufacturing

Introduction:

For over a decade Toyota motor company has been the leading auto manufacturing in quality, customer satisfaction, and affordability. But in the spring of 1992 Toyota Motor Manufacturing (TMM) in Georgetown, Kentucky noticed a problem. They were beginning to see more and more cars coming off the assembly line with mal functioning or defective rear seats. Why now would such a problem arise? At first glance the seat issued looked to be a supplier based problem but upon further investigation the true reason for the problem began to come to light.
Toyota’s prided itself on building a production system designed to reduce costs by thoroughly, eliminating waste while upholding the highest quality standards in the industry. Toyota achieved this goal by applying two principles, first they employed the JIT production system, and subsequent they applied the jidoka principle, which effectively makes any production problem instantly self-evident and stops the production immediat...