Essays on Production System

Toyota Motor Corporation

The company developed in 1937. In 1938, it launched Just in Time (JIT) system. In 1991 Prius was introduced. In 2000s, products like Passo, Porte, Rush, and LS 600h were announced and with the focus on sustainability in relation to Toyota’s Way, energy efficient cars like SAI, Prius Plug-in Hybird were introduced (Toyota’s History). The company designs, manufactures, assembles, and sells passenger vehicles, minivans, and commercial vehicles along with related parts and accessories. The products that are offered by the company include hybrid cars under Prius, Corolla, Harrier; fuel cell passenger cars under the MIRAI; and conventional ...

The case summarizes the experience of a Toyota employee (Bob Dallis) while getting trained for a managerial role in America. Despite having the basic idea of the TPS (Toyota Production System), Dallis learned that his knowledge of the system was limited. Through the training Dallis discovered that the best way to learn and understand TPS is through actively participating in the process and finding gaps in the operational process. While going through his training, Dallis learned to identify gaps in the operational process and understand the relevance of the highest level of efficiency and operational availability. Through the training ...

Introduction

Many companies are now taking the concept of corporate social responsibility and environmentalism serious. This is due to the understanding that a company has to do a lot more than just focus on making profits. The stakeholder orientation of businesses imply that there are social and environmental implications for every action a company undertakes. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the concept of Eco Innovation. This will include the presentation of a briefing for business leaders about the importance, opportunities, challenges and strategies that relates to eco-innovation. This will include the presentation of a case study ...

How my chosen organization compete within its business area

Toyota is a leading manufacturer of automobile in the global setting, a position that has been earned through overcoming various hurdles over the past decades. One of the primary attributes that have contributed to the company's success is its focus on effective quality management (Toussaint, 2016). Moreover, the company's success is associated with a strict management system, which is based on the different principles of operations management as will be explained in the study. By embracing the above techniques, the company has experienced tremendous growth over the recent past. Therefore, the above study seeks to account for the significance ...

Part B – Toyota Production System Report

The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a socio-technical system developed by no less than Toyota Corporation, the largest automobile manufacturer in the planet. The said system summarizes their management and production principles and philosophies. What makes the said system fascinating is the fact that it is one of the reasons why Toyota has been continuously bagged awards in its industry and is now being hailed as the alpha in the international automobile industry—both by its customers and business analysts. In Part A of this report, the author has outlined the different advantages of the TPS, how it can ...

The eco-festival 2016 held at Kingsborough Community College on May 12 was one of my best experiences in college. In attending the festival, I was able to gain deeper insight on eco-justice and all the activities that pertain to the impact of animal agriculture on the planet and our health. This essay is a reaction paper on one of the events during the festival that I attended which focused on the impact of animal agriculture on health. The event which was held at MAC Lighthouse was moderated by experts and scholars from the college who focused on how animal ...

Difference between Six Sigma and Lean

Six Sigma can be explained as the philosophy of management that is highly focused on the achievement of organization's objective, data collection, and examination of the outcome of the entire process to ensure the quality service and decrease in product imperfection. Sigma is a Greek word that is rarely used to indicate the difference from a standard but in the philosophy of management, Six Sigma is used as a methodology to eradicate faults from the manufacturing process to ensure the best quality of products. Six Sigma is classified into two parts namely, Six Sigma DMAIC and Six Sigma DMADV. ...

Functions of SCM

Buy: As illustrated in the twenty-eighth chapter, the manufacturing plant was forced to bargain with suppliers to increase the scale of orders. This move would benefit both the organization and the suppliers. Alex hoped that this move would bear fruit (pp. 234-236). Make: Al had trouble with making plans about production activities. In chapter twenty-one, the manufacturer found a solution to the problem that would prioritize production tasks. (Goldratt, 2004, p.184) Move: Chapter 2 features Al’s shipping issues that had economic implications on the plant. For the plant to improve its efficiency, shipping schedules had to be aligned ...

RE : Perfectly Balanced Line Production

This is in response to your recent comment on a tour of the production system of the firm. You remarked that the line production system ought to be perfectly balanced. I could not agree with you more on this. The reasons for my agreement are: Line balancing is a task that requires all the workstations along the production line to have equal time requirements. This endeavor has the end result of minimizing, if not removing all the idle and lazy time along the line, and has the end situation of making use of labor and equipment most efficiently. Thus ...

Abstract

Total quality management is an approach steeped in scientific management. It involves an attempt to cut down on defects and meet what consumers require of a firm. TQM is based on the formulation of a system to monitor and control affairs and set and meet quality targets through a generalist framework. This is done through several approaches and systems including Six Sigma, Toyota Production System and ISO-9001. This paper focuses on ISO-9001. It is an accreditation system that is utilized by registering with a global monitoring system that is applied over an extended period of usually 6 months. ISO-9001 ...

Just-in-time (JIT)

Just in Time in production may also be referred to as the Toyota production system or Just in time production. This is a method whose primary objectives is to decrease flow periods within manufacturing as well as response time from customers and suppliers. It originated in Japan in the 1960s at a Toyota factory. It was mitigated to the western industries in the 1980s where many manufacturing industries practiced it. Just In time manufacturing strategy struggles to advance organization returns on a business venture by decreasing the procedure inventory and the linked costs. This just in time in production ...