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Jidoka. “All About the People”. Toyota Production System (TPS). Goal of TPS. Cost reduction Improvement of productivity. Technical Elements of TPS. Kanban Just-in-time Small lot delivery Jidoka or quality in the process Heijunka or leveling of demand Visual control
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“All About the People” Toyota Production System (TPS)
Goal of TPS • Cost reduction • Improvement of productivity
Technical Elements of TPS • Kanban • Just-in-time • Small lot delivery • Jidoka or quality in the process • Heijunka or leveling of demand • Visual control • 5S or clean, orderly worksites
Focus on Jidoka Automation with “human” intelligence
Jidoka’s Purpose • Increase quality • Lower costs • Improve customer relations • Shorten delivery time
What does Jidoka do? • Adds human judgment to automated equipment • Minimizes poor quality • Makes the process more dependable
Founder of Jidoka Taiichi Ohno
Production System Two Structural Features • Just-in-time • Jidoka
Developed Due to: • Overproduction • Wasted time at the machine • Waste in the transportation units • Waste in processing • Waste in inventory
Jidoka Gives the Employee • Responsibility • Authority to stop production
Employee Responsibility • Help solve problems • To make decisions that affect them • Be accountable for their work • Improve productivity
Daily Activities • Working in dangerous operations • Physical labor • Repetitive labor • Continually rotating jobs
Stopping Production • Quality is assured • Costs are reduced • Eliminates problems
Prevention Techniques • Poka-yoke • Andons
Poka-yoke Used for • visual control of quality • to prevent defects from happening
Andons • Red - line stoppage • Yellow - call for help • Green - normal operation
When Andons Go Off • Assembly line is stopped • Management is summoned • supervisors • maintenance personnel • engineers
Other Visual Controls • Kanbans • Standard operation sheets • Process control charts • Tool boards
Problems Recorded • Easels • Worksheets
Daily Exercises • Time is reserved to go over problems • Work on solving the problems for future quality
Example of Jidoka Toyota power loom
Problem • Shuttlecocks would stick • Created defects in cloth being produced • Produced unacceptable quality • Costs increased
Solution • Developed a stopper • Turned automation into atonomation
End Result • Reliable system • Cheaper to operate • Improved quality
Objectives of Jidoka • Ensure top quality • Prevent equipment breakdowns • Better use of manpower
Jidoka’s Ultimate Goal Quality
Readings List Automotive Manufacturing & Production, July 2001, v113 i7 p64. Doing Business in and with Japan. New York: American Management Association, Inc., 1969. Economist, 10/17/92, Vol. 325 Issue 7781, Survey of car industry, p5. Hay, Edward J. The Just-In-Time Breakthrough. Rath & Strong, Inc.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1988.
Continued Reading List The Financial Times, December 13, 2001, p13. Imai, Masaaki. Kaizen. New York: McGraw-Hill, Kaizen Institute, 1986. Industrial Management & Data Systems, July-August 1997 v97 n7-8 o274(6). Management Review, June 1997, v86 i6 p36. Sepehri, Mehran. Just-In-Time, Not Just In Japan. American Production & Inventory Control Society, Inc., 1986. Togo, Yukiyasu & Wartman, William. Against All Odds. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.