Toyota Lean Application

Virtual Company Tours

to accompany Chapter 16: Just-In-Time and Lean Operations

Chapter 16 Tour 1

Destination:

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky Virtual Tour

Questions:

1. How does the Toyota method of die storage and exchange support their lean production system?

2. What is the definition offered for kaizen? How do Toyota and its employees benefit from

kaizen?

3. What evidence is offered that Toyota’s Global Body Line increases flexibility?

4. Toyota’s production process installs car doors and then removes them later in the process, only to reinstall them. What does Toyota’s lean system gain by this process design?