The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date