Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

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.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.