QUOTES ON TOYOTA

"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 that time line by removing the non-value-added waste"
Taiichi Ohno (founder of TPS)

"One of the main causes of the success of Toyota nell'assomigliare always be sought in itself.
Trying to be like Toyota, absurdly, we move away from more and more. This is the paradox.
Nobody taught to Toyota as tools to use: the 5S, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping. All of this is the fruit of their work and the system that have built "
William Edwards Deming

"The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to think"

"What is the Toyota Production System?
About 80% of the people to whom you ask will tell you that is a system that is based on the tags or kanban, another 15% will argue that a production system and only 5% will take the true essence of the application and tell you that it is a system for the disposal of waste "
Shigeo Shingo (Co-author of the Japanese philosophy of Just In Time)

"Many good American companies have respect for individuals and practice kaizen and other TPS tools.
But what is important is having all elements together as a system
Fujio Cho - Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation

"In the Toyota system, the work of people is divided broadly into two categories: the work of the hands and the work of the eyes (opinion of suitability).
Speaking of mechanization of operations, we can understand more easily what is the difference if we think the automation as a mechanization of the work of his hands and independence as a systematisation of the work of the eyes "
Minoru Tanaka (author of "The Toyota Model")