Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ USA‚ Inc Case Analysis * Main and sub ideas of the case. The main topic of the case was the problems caused by defective or damaged seats. TMM USA’s seat problem was threefold. The first was the actual defects with the hooks and the damaged caused by cross threading by employees when installing the seats. This problem led to the second problem‚ which was the departure from the Toyota Production System (TPS) when dealing with the seat problem. Rather than fix the problem
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing – Assignment #6 Mgmt 660 - Professor Suresh Chand Date: September 18‚ 2010 Toyota Assignment #6 (1) As Doug Friesen‚ what would you do to address the seat problem? Where would you focus your attention and solution efforts? What options exist? What would you recommend? Why? The first thing that should be addressed is finding what the actual reason for the problem is. In looking at the defect data from Exhibit 8‚ it identifies 5 seat defects that constitute
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isolated to the plastic hook‚ which is brittle and at times cracks during installation. The Camry’s seats and hook component parts are single sourced from the KFS Company‚ headquartered nearby TMM’s Georgetown‚ Kentucky plant. Firstly‚ since Toyota is completely dependent on KFS to produce high quality Camry vehicles‚ Doug Friesen should immediately bring KFS’s senior leadership team on-site to inspect the production process and rear seat issues together. Exhibit 8 (Defect Pareto) indicates
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ USA‚ Inc. Problem Definition: Deficiency in matching with the Seat Variations requirements Possible Causes: There were 23 Sedan & Wagon Models‚ 11 exterior colors‚ 29 interior variations & 30 other options like a moonroof. Thus number of possible combination reached several thousands. The challenge for the seat supplier-KFS was to match the seat with the above thousands of combinations. There were around 5 pieces of the same seat and the challenge lied
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Seat Problems In early 1992‚ TMM became the sole source of new Camry wagons with more than 41 seat variations exported over the world. Doug Friesen‚ manager of assembly for TMM‚ confronted seat problems resulting in drop of run ratio (production level) and in increase of overtime works‚ lead- time and off-line vehicle inventory. Assumptions First‚ reduction of seat variance is not considered as an alternative because Doug is a manager of assembly without control over sales decisions. Second
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In August 2007‚ one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers‚ Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC)‚ announced that its joint venture in India‚ Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM) had set up a technical school called Toyota Technical Training Institute (TTTI)‚ on the outskirts of Bangalore‚ India. The company said that TTTI was meant for those who had passed out of middle school (Class 10) but could not continue their education due to financial or other constraints. TMC projected the setting
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Use the balance to determine the mass of the rectangular solid. Record the mass to the nearest 0.01 g in the data table. Volume: Use the metric ruler to measure the length‚ width‚ and height of the rectangular solid. Record these measurements to the nearest 0.1 cm in the data table. Calculate the volume using the following formula: Volume (cm3) = length (cm) x width (cm) x height (cm)
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Lesson 3.01: History of the Periodic Table 1. Explain how scientific observations led to the development of‚ and changes to‚ the periodic table. Dmitri Mendeleev- first periodic table‚ organized 63 known elements according to properties‚ organized into rows and columns. He wrote names‚ mass and chemical properties on each. Julius lothar Meyer- independently worked in German ‚ similar to Mendeleev Henry Gwyn Jeffrey’s Moseley: worked with Ernest Rutherford experimented with 38 metals‚ he found that
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Two conditions for equilibrium are that the net force acting on the object is zero‚ and the net torque acting on the object is zero. In the experiment done‚ conditions for equilibrium are observed. Equilibrant forces were determined using the force table and component methods. The unknown forces were also determined using the first and second conditions for equilibrium. Another part of the experiment was to locate the center of gravity of a composite body and to determine rotational equilibrium.
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China is a country with 5000-years-long civilization and a long and rich history‚ so Chinese like to pay more attention to the etiquette‚ especially in the table manners. Most foreigners do not know table manners when they join in Chinese dinner party because Western dining is different with Chinese. Chinese table manners have three important parts‚ including place setting‚ taboos‚ and toast. Firstly‚ the seating arrangement is one of the important parts of dinning etiquette because the order of
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