The Toyota Production System has long been hailed as the source of Toyota’s outstanding performance as a manufacturer. The system’s distinctive practices—its kanban cards and quality circles ...

Spear, Steven, and H. Kent Bowen. "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 5 (September–October 1999): 96–106. (Winner of Shingo Prize for Excellence in ...

Employee empowerment has long been a key principle of continuous improvement programs. Now that natural-language interfaces ...

The Toyota Production Systems Lab provides hands-on education in state-of-the-art production systems. Particular emphasis is placed on teamwork, problem solving, and process improvement by studying ...

Discover how Virginia Mason Medical Center's unique management methodology, inspired by Toyota, has driven improvements in quality and safety, earning them 26 ...

Toyota Motor has reported a global output decline for the ninth consecutive month in October, primarily due to declines in production in the US and China, though the drop was less severe than in ...

TLS Long Beach is Toyota's first port vehicle processing facility in the world to be powered by onsite-generated 100% ...

The recent widespread shutdown at Toyota group’s assembly plants exposed a vulnerability in its hallmark “lean” production system, which minimizes inventory. It took 10 days for Toyota’s ...

Toyota said a malfunction in the production system has made it impossible to order components. Officials said the company will decide by Tuesday evening how it will proceed in the coming days.