Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.

To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.

Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.