Operational management case study Team: Envision Key people: Doug Friesen‚ Manager of assembly for toyota georgetown‚ kentucky plant. Mike daprile‚ General manager of assembly plant Fujio Cho‚ President of TMM and TPS Rodger Lewis ‚Assistant manager of QC(Quality Control) Kevin smith‚ Manager of Purchasing EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Doug Friesen of Toyota Motors Manufacturing (TMM) faces increasing problems with its seat supply. TMM’s single seat supplier‚ Kentucky
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General Motors with Lean Manufacturing An Introduction of GM Global Manufacturing System Operations Management Team Project Contributed by We Make A+ (sort by number): 유형근 - 2009 050 444 오슬기 - 2010 049 712 손무화 - 2010 054 149 주시건 - 2010 059 605 김학운 - 9125 620 120 Division of Business Administration‚ Hanyang Univ. ERICA Ansan‚ December 2012 Contents Part 1.Overview of General Motors 2 1.1 Why General Motors? 2 1.2 Introduction of General Motors 3 1.3 Basic Information
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Ohno Don’t Lean on Me! A partial Biography on Taiichi Ohno and the Lean System Topics of Discussion: -Transportation and Unecessary Inventory -Underutilization of Employees -Defects -Excess Motion -Overprocessing
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the ways to evaluate the TQM success is to adopt a holistic approach of assessing your organization. One of the examples of such a holistic approach is the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award assessment approach. This is a national level award system in the United States to recognize organizations for achieving an excellent in their respective business. To prepare for an assessment‚ you need to understand the Baldrige criteria which is used a reference for the assessment. Once you have understood
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managers be aware of? Appendices 1 Appendix 1 – Cultural Characteristics and Differences Group research and discussion of cultural characteristics and differences between Google and Toyota resulted in the following: |Cultural Characteristics |Google |Toyota | |Country / Nation |USA |Japan | |
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focus on a growth strategy‚ through innovative products and production processes. Reinvention and renewal. They survived the Great Depression and multiple recessions‚ recovered from the dot-com bust and were able to continue expanding overseas. They adapted to save the company‚ by introducing new designs. In 1996‚ Herman Miller began an aggressive drive to reinvent its operations and established a fruitful relationship with the Toyota Supplier Support Center. Unique to the office furniture industry
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Muda = waste (in its many forms) Muda (is a Japanese word meaning "futility; uselessness; idleness; superfluity; waste; wastage; wastefulness"‚and is a key concept in the Toyota Production System (TPS) as one of the three types of waste (muda‚ mura‚ muri). Waste reduction is an effective way to increase profitability. Toyota merely picked up these three words beginning with the prefix mu-‚which in Japan are widely recognized as a reference to a product improvement program or campaign. A process
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time. Even beyond Porter’s generic strategies‚ Toyota has been operating and already proven that it’s possible to be a low cost producer of a differentiated product. It was able to achieve leadership in North America‚ surpassing General Motors. They continuously find ways to reduce production costs and at the same optimize its process so that it could introduce new models faster than its competitors. They’re known for their Toyota Production System (TPS) which other vehicular companies were trying
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Kaizen The Japanese Strategy of Continuous Improvement What is Kaizen? Kaizen means "improvement". Kaizen strategy calls for never-ending efforts for improvement involving everyone in the organization – managers and workers alike. Kaizen and Management Management has two major components: 1. Maintenance‚ and 2. Improvement. The objective of the maintenance function is to maintain current technological‚ managerial‚ and operating standards. The improvement function is aimed at improving
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6 . With high fuel prices and a weak US economy in June 2008‚ Honda reported a 1%sales increase while its rivals‚ including the Detroit Big Three and Toyota‚ havereported double-digit losses. Honda’s sales were up almost 20 percent from thesame month last year. The Civic and the Accord were in the top five list of sales.7. Analysts have attributed this to two main factors.i. First‚ Honda’s product lineup consists of mostly small to mid-size‚ highly fuel-efficient vehicles.ii. Secondly‚ over the
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