Friday, June 26, 2020

Taiichi Ohno on Industrial Engineering - Toyota Style Industrial Engineering





 Taiichi Ohno on Industrial Engineering 




Japanese businesses carefully studied industrial engineering (IE), a company wide manufacturing technology improvement discipline that is directly tied to management.

The success of Toyota in cost reduction, productivity improvement, and international competitiveness and its celebrated Toyota Production System, fulfilled the dream of Yoichi Ueno (that Japan can guide US in improved practices of efficiency improvement). The success of #Toyota and the World Class #TPS was  built on the sustained efforts many Japanese persons who understood Taylor and Gilbreth's writings and improvised them in implementing them in Japanese companies.

IE is not a partial technology improvement discipline but it is a total manufacturing technology improvement discipline reaching the whole organization. Toyota production system utilizes Toyota-style IE.


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What is Toyota style Industrial Engineering?


Toyota style industrial engineering is mokeru or profit-making industrial engineerng (MIE). Unless IE results in cost reductions and profit increases, I (Taiichi Ohno) think it is meaningless.

A former head of the American Steel Workers' Union defined IE's function as that of entering a plant to improve methods and procedures and to reduce costs.

"IE is the use of techniques and systems to improve the method of manufacturing. In scope it ranges from work simplifications to large-scale capital investment plans"

IE aims at improving work methods in the plant or in a particular work activity. An industrial engineer studies systematic approaches to improvements.

Definition of IE according to Society for Advancement of Management (Successor to Taylor Society)

Industrial engineering applies engineering knowledge and techniques for the study, improvement, planning and implementation of the following:

1. Method and system
2. Qualitative and quantitative planning and various standards including the various procedures in the organization of work.
3. Measuring actual results under the standards and taking suitable actions.

This is all done to exercise better management with special consideration for employee welfare, and it does not restrict business to lowering the cost of improved products and services.

Ohno said he included various definitions as each is good description. But he indicated that implementing IE effectively is not easy.

Ohno made a wish that IE as used in Toyota will be superior to the IE used in American Business.

Toyota style Industrial Engineering - Ohno


"We have eliminated waste by examining available resources, rearranging machines, improving machining processes, installing autonomous systems, improving tools, analyzing transportation methods and optimizing the materials at hand for manufacturing. High production efficiency has also been maintained by preventing the recurrence of defective products, operational mistakes, and accidents, and by incorporating workers' ideas." Taiichi Ohno (P. 21)

Source: Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production, pp. 71-72.

Japanese Leaders in Efficiency - Productivity Movement - Industrial Engineering.

Yoichi Ueno - Japanese Leader in Efficiency - Productivity Movement
#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction #Japanese
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/06/yoichi-ueno-japanese-leader-in.html

Rear Admiral Takuo Godo - Productivity Promoter in Japan
#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction #Japanese
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/06/rear-admiral-takuo-godo-productivity.html


Shigeo Shingo - The Japanese Industrial Engineer - Contribution to Industrial Engineering
#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction #Shingo #Japanese
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/03/shigeo-shingo-japanese-industrial_20.html

Taiichi Ohno on Industrial Engineering - Toyota Style Industrial Engineering
#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction #Japanese
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/taiichi-ohno-on-industrial-engineering.html


Takeshi Kawase - Industrial Engineering - Definition. IE  deals  with the efficiency of systems that include humans.
#IndustrialEngineering #Productivity #CostReduction #Japanese
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/12/takeshi-kawase-industrial-engineering.html



Updated on 26 June 2020, 12 November 2013

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