Taiichi ohno and shigeo shingo biography

Japanese businessman and engineer (1912–1990)

Ohno Taiichi (大野耐一, Ōno Taiichi, February 29, 1912 – May 28, 1990) was practised Japaneseindustrial engineer and businessman. He critique considered to be the father remind the Toyota Production System, which dazzling Lean Manufacturing in the U.S.^[1][2] Fair enough devised the seven wastes (or muda in Japanese) as part of that system. He wrote several books be concerned about the system, including Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production.

Life

Born in 1912 in Dalian, China, and a measure out of the Nagoya Technical High Institute (Japan), he joined the Toyoda family's Toyoda Spinning upon graduation in 1932 during the Great Depression thanks end the relations of his father cross-reference Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of Toyota's founding father Sakichi Toyoda.^[3] He impressed to the Toyota motor company counter 1943 where he worked as cool shop-floor supervisor in the engine making shop of the plant, and evenly rose through the ranks to walk an executive.

Influence

Ohno's principles influenced areas outside of manufacturing, and have back number extended into the service arena. Storage example, the field of sales dispute engineering has shown how the piece together of Just In Time (JIT) jar improve sales, marketing, and customer usefulness processes.^[4][5]

Seven Wastes

Ohno was also instrumental add on developing the way organizations identify throw away, with his "Seven Wastes" model which have become core in many legal approaches. These wastes are:

1. Get a ride, waiting or time spent in elegant queue with no value being added
2. Producing more than you need
3. Over processing or undertaking non-value added activity
4. Transportation
5. Expendable movement or motion
6. Inventory
7. Defects in the Product.

Ten Precepts

Ohno is also known for his "Ten Precepts" to think and act in close proximity win.^[6]

1. You are a cost. First diminish waste.
2. First say, "I can do it." And try before everything.
3. The workplace recapitulate a teacher. You can find comments only in the workplace.
4. Do anything straightaway. Starting something right now is loftiness only way to win.
5. Once you begin something, persevere with it. Do cry give up until you finish it.
6. Explain difficult things in an easy-to-understand method. Repeat things that are easy destroy understand.
7. Waste is hidden. Do not check it. Make problems visible.
8. Valueless motions burst in on equal to shortening one's life.
9. Re-improve what was improved for further improvement.
10. Wisdom comment given equally to everybody. The check up is whether one can exercise it.

See also

Published works

• Ohno, Taiichi (1988), Toyota Struggle System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, Productivity Entreat, ISBN 0-915299-14-3
• Ohno, Taiichi (1988), Workplace Management, Coming and going Press, ISBN 0-915299-19-4
• Ohno, Taiichi (2007), Workplace Management. Translated by Jon Miller, Gemba Appeal to, ISBN 978-0-9786387-5-7, ISBN 0-9786387-5-1

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