Factory Maintenance Toyota Production System is called TPS.
Kanban System is famous as the methods of TPS. Most of TPS method and thinking is for arranging prompt, precise, cheap and easy flow.
The rate of product shoud not have uneveness.
The unevenness is the amount of production per time and operation of people.
Loss prevents the good flow. So it should be removed.
Kanban is famous as the method for Inventory Control . But it also used as the tool to career information rapidly.
In TPS, each part moves under each rule. But it makes effects more than the sum of each movement. TPS is Self Organization .
By TPS, operators are motivated and problems are solved promptly.
Many companies hopes to imitate TPS methods. The strong point of TOYOTA is not the user TPS but developper of TPS.
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