Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
"Here's the first information ever published in Japan on the Toyota production system (known as Just-In-Time
manufacturing). Here Ohno, who created JIT for Toyota, reveals the origins, daring innovations, and ceaseless
evolution of the Toyota system
Workplace Management: Taiichi Ohno
"If you insist on blindly calculating individual costs and waste time insisting that this is profitable of that is not profitable, you will just increase the cost of your low volume products. For this reason there are many cases in this world where companies will discontinue car models that are actually profitable, but are money losers according to their calculations. Likewise, there are cases where companies sell a lot of model that they think is profitable but in fact are only increasing their loses." page 32
Interview with Masaaki Imai on Taiichi Ohnoview details
"What was he like to converse with?
He didn't say much. Actually, he much preferred to listen...
When you introduce Kaizen, the workers are the most grateful recipients of this improvement. They find that because of the various standardized work introduced - because things become much more regimented and well managed - they can carry on with their work without any surprises. And the result is a much more satisfying job. Workers are the greatest recipients of Kaizen work."