a collection of quotes from taiichi ohno

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A Collection of Quotes

from

Taiichi Ohno

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Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer

and businessman. He is considered to be the

father of the Toyota Production System, which

became Lean Manufacturing in the U.S. He

devised the seven wastes as part of this system.

Born: February 29, 1912, Dalian, China

Died: May 28, 1990, Toyota, Aichi Prefecture,

Japan

Books: Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-

Scale Production, Just-in-time for Today and

Tomorrow, Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management,

Workplace Management

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“The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements - but what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think’.“ - Taiichi Ohno



“Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“Don't look with your eyes, look with your feet. Don't think with you head, think with your hands.“ - Taiichi Ohno

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“People who can't understand numbers are useless. The gemba where numbers are not visible is also bad. However, people who only look at the numbers are the worst of all.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“When you go out into the workplace, you should be looking for things that you can do for your people there. You’ve got no business in the workplace if you’re just there to be there. You’ve got to be looking for changes you can make for the benefit of the people who are working there.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“If you are going to do kaizen continuously you've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are. Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are. If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something!“ - Taiichi Ohno


“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.“ - Taiichi Ohno



“Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.“ - Taiichi Ohno

“The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.“ - Taiichi Ohno


“Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.“ - Taiichi Ohno



“Ask 'why' five times about every matter.“ - Taiichi Ohno

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