Supply Chain and Operations Management Week 5 Toyota Motor Manufacturing USA Seat Problem Prepared by: Rod Wells Student ID: 21514178 1. As Doug Friesen‚ what would you do to address the seat problem? Where would you focus your attention and solution efforts? Why? Answer: Address the problem: Doug needs to bring together his production team leaders to discuss the issue and gather input as to their thoughts on the root cause. He needs to assign a team leader to solely take on
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ USA‚ Inc. Operations Management July 15‚ 2013 In the early 1980s‚ Japanese auto makers contemplated building cars in North America. At that time‚ it was unclear whether cars produced outside Japan could live up to their hard-earned reputation of high quality at low cost. In 1992 Toyota meets a Serious problem‚ a growing number of cars were sitting off the line with defective seats or with no seats at all. Today‚ we will talk about this case and offer some our
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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‚ 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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is a distant third. As KFS is the responsible party the situation needs to be addressed at their site. Using the traditional TMC first principle of ‘let’s go see it’ and then converge on the Five Why’s‚ Doug should visit KFS and inspect the manufacturing and QC process. By focusing on uncovering issues at the source of the seats‚ it is likely there will be fewer problems at the TMM plant. The focus on QC at KFS could potentially eliminate 113 of the 138 problems reported between 14-30 April‚
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Main problem: Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ U.S.A. (TMM) is deviating from the standard assembly line principle of jidoka in an attempt to avoid expenses incurred from stopping the production line for seat quality defects. This deviation has contributed to the inability to identify the root cause of the problem‚ which has led to decreased run ratios on the line and an excess of defective automobiles in the overflow lot for multiple days. If this problem isn’t fixed quickly‚ an increased amount
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TOYOTA MOTOR MANUFACTURING‚ U.S.A.‚ INC. The Problem: Because issues with seats are mainly caused by the defective seats being sent by KFS‚ Friesen should focus his initial investigation on the process used when the seat assemblies are initially manufactured. Defective and/or incorrect seats being installed in the vehicles will only cause re-work and backlog in the Overflow Parking Area‚ so if there is a way to decrease the amount of re-work to be done‚ Friesen should try to identify it.
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Friesen‚ Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ U.S.A. (TMM)’s manager of assembly‚ has an urgent issue on hand. His focus on current production and on manufacturing the needed quota for suppliers has led to deviation from Toyota Production System (TPS)’s core competency of lean manufacturing. Because Friesen holds an important position as manager of assembly‚ this deviation has trickled down to his employees and possibly even their suppliers. He must now work to quickly resolve the issues “The Toyota Way” before
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