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Toyota Production System

IIT Roorkee, , Prof. Prof. Rajat Agarwal

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Manufacturing is one of the important activity for wealth generation. Countries like China, Thailand, Vietnam etc are creating an enabling environment for developing these nations as major industrial ones. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in manufacturing activities. Toyota car company at Japan is a very interesting case study to learn many things to make manufacturing competitive. Toyota consistently raises the bar for manufacturing, product development, and process excellence. The result is an amazing business success story: steadily taking market share from price cutting competitors, earning far more profit than any other automaker, and winning the praise of business leaders worldwide.

Includes

Lecture 1: Manufacturing Excellence

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Lecture Details

Course Details

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: (1)  Manufacturing Excellence
(2)  Global Environment
(3)  Production System
(4)  Operations Strategy 
(5)  The Heart of the TPS: Eliminating Waste  

Week 2: (1)  Principles of Toyota Way
(2)  Culture Behind Toyota Way
(3)  Toyota Way in Action 
(4)  Long Term Philosophy 
(5)  Create Continuous Flow 

Week 3: (1)  Pull System 
(2)  Leveling Workload 
(3)  Get Quality Right the first time 
(4)  Standardization of Task 
(5)  Use of Visual Control
        
Week 4: (1)  Use of Reliable Technology 
(2)  Role of Leaders in Manufacturing Philosophy
(3)  Developing Exceptional Teams  
(4)  Challenge & Respect Extended Networks   
(5)  See yourself to understand the situation 
        
Week 5: (1)  Developing decisions with Consensus 
(2)  Becoming Learning Organization   
(3)  Becoming a Learning Organization: Continuous Improvement
(4)  Using Toyota Way for other Organization(Service & Technical) 
(5)  Lean Manufacturing

Week 6: (1)  Lean Vs Agile Manufacturing
(2)  Sustainable Manufacturing-I   
(3)  Sustainable Manufacturing-II   
(4)  Flexible Manufacturing System 
(5)  Benchmarking 
                
Week 7: (1)   Cultural Issues in Lean 
(2)   Overview of Lean implementation
(3)   Significance of Lead time 
(4)   Techniques to reduce LT 
(5)   Value Stream Mapping 

Week 8: (1)   KANBAN Approach 
(2)   KANBAN Calculation-I
(3)   KANBAN Calculation-II
(4)   Theory of Constraints
(5)   Different Business Excellence Models 

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Sam

Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.

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Dembe

Great course. Thank you very much.

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