Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management - Hardcover

Taiichi Ohno

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0978638751 ISBN 13: 9780978638757

Publisher: Gemba Press, 2007

Synopsis

This classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production System returns to print in a new translation. Ohno delivers timeless lessons on how to effectively manage the gemba actual place or work. He relates stories from across his nearly 40 years of struggle to establish the Toyota Production System as both a mindset and supporting behaviors of constant improvement. In the book s 37 chapters, Ohno covers a broad range of topics and lays out the fundamental philosophy of kaizen (continuous improvement) that has made Toyota the most successful automobile manufacturer today.

About this title

About the Author:

Taiichi Ohno was born in Dalian, China on February 29, 1912. He joined Toyoda Boshoku in 1932 after graduating from the mechanical engineering department of Nagoya Technical High School. He was transferred to Toyota Motor Company in 1943, and he was named as the machine shop manager in 1949. He was promoted at Toyota to director in 1954, managing director in 1964, senior managing director in 1970, and executive vice president in 1975. Ohno retired from Toyota in 1978. Taiichi Ohno is the father of the Toyota Production System. Taiichi Ohno authored three works: The Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, Taiichi Ohno s Workplace Management, and Just-In-Time For Today and Tomorrow with Setsuo Mito Taiichi Ohno died on May 28, 1990 in Toyota City, Japan.

Review:

This book brings to us Taiichi Ohno's philosophy of workplace management the thinking behind the Toyota Production System. I personally get a thrill down my spine to read these thoughts in Ohno's own words. My favorite part is his discussion of the misconceptions hidden within common sense and how management needs a revolution of awareness. - --Dr. Jeffrey Liker, Director , Japan Technology Management Program, University of Michigan and Author "The Toyota Way"

While no one person invented lean, no one is given more credit than Taiichi Ohno. Access to his true thoughts and ideas are rare, and this book is the best and most useful of Ohno's work. Many lean students would want nothing more than to spend a day with Taiichi Ohno walking through their plant. This book is the closest thing we have left to that experience. Jon Miller has done a diligent job not just in translation but ensuring that the true meaning comes through in a readable fashion. You truly feel as if you are in conversation with the father of the Toyota Production System. While this book won't paint a clear picture of what to do next on your lean journey, it should be required reading for any serious student of the subject. - --Jamie Flinchbaugh, Co-author, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road"

This book and its translation provide the reader a wonderful opportunity to learn directly from the master architect of the Toyota Production System. One is able to hear, in his own words, the principles that have evolved into the most successful management method ever developed. Today, these lessons are being applied in many industries including health care in addition to their long term application in manufacturing. This book enables the reader to get inside Taiichi Ohno's thinking as he makes concepts such as Kanban, The Supermarket System and Just in Time come alive in ways that can be easily understood. This book will help me, as a senior executive in health care, better implement our management method, the Virginia Mason Production System. - --Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center

About this edition

• Publisher: Gemba Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0978638751
• ISBN 13: 9780978638757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146
• Editor: Jon Miller