LinkedIn group: TPS+1 ENGINEERINGPrepared by Casey Ng

Week 10

TPS+1 ENGINEERING group is an active discussion

group in LinkedIn of TPS practitioners in strategic planning , product planning, cost planning, purchasing, training, IT development and engineering including new application development, pioneering application for other industries such as health care, servicing, mining, logistic and others

The concept of TPS+1 is building on the evolving development of TPS that

the current stage of TPS is TPS of previous stage + added elements, therefore, it

is continually TPS=TPS+1

25th Feb to 3rd Mar 2103Most popular discussions

Standards should be checked and changed on a regular basis. depending on the process perhaps once a year is sufficient …

The perfect standard will never exist, as everything is evolving. …

standard that has not been changed in a year means little Kaizen is happening..

Standard work has three fundamental purposes: 1. training new employees, 2. problem solving, 3. continuous improvement. Therefore, each time there is a new employee or a new problem, the standard should be challenged and improved,..

a critical pause to ask the question what have we learned about the task and the work we do to accomplish the task is appropriate. ..

Good S/W will give you the traceability required should defects be produced in the production/manufacturing process.

I am not satisfied if I come back from genba without had heard any new idea or had seen an improvement.

"Change is the only constant". CHANGE and CHARGE!!!

The most frequent reason to improve the standard document is to better describe the way of doing the task (adapt wording, photos...). One has to remember one of the purpose of the standard work sheet as supporting material for new comer training. To adapt an English say about apples and doctors ... One audit a day keeps the trouble at bay!

I challenge everything and often. I want to know (5) Why on any process I observe. Goodyear Tire Co. once boxed up every tire individually and stacked onto a pallet; nobody knew why. After research, they concluded it was to protect the white wall of the tires. That process was created in the 50's and was no longer relevant to today's trends. Standards are only as accurate as the day they are created.

So, if we consider that we are in constant "process improvement", which is equivalent to the constant "performance enhancement", we make constant revisions of the standards..

Here is the word play. A mental Challenge for all in this thread Why is the third statement true?

1. When work is performed in the absence of a standard, this is an abnormality 2. When standards exist but are not being followed, this is an abnormality 3. When standards exist and are being followed, this is an abnormality

Could we extend the idea from zero inventory to negative inventory to other areas? How about from zero defects to negative defects? Or zero accidents? How about negative accidents? A workplace that actually heals the sick and makes healthy people healthier, because it is closer to the ideal process. Now that's something that makes doing kaizen for the rest of our lives worthwhile.

"Without Standards, there can not be Kaizen!" Taiichi OhnoPencils and Paper are a humble couple. Lamination sheets, computers, and pens are an arrogant family of concrete heads ;-)

So what's the benchmark for an updated and optimal standards?

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TOYOTA　 and IT Systems

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