Without standards, there can be no improvement.

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

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

The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.

The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.

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 Even last month's manual should be out of date