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.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

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

All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.

It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

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