Toyota Style Industrial Engineering - American Industrial Engineering - Difference

TPS is Industrial Engineering System of Toyota Motors.

IE is a system and the Toyota production system may be regarded as Toyota style IE.

Taiichi Ohno on Industrial Engineering - Toyota Style Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/taiichi-ohno-on-industrial-engineering.html

 

Toyota Style Industrial Engineering has focus on efficiency and waste elimination from manufacturing processes. They use all techniques advocated by pioneers to achieve their objective with some significant improvements.


Value analysis and engineering
Process Analysis
Operation Analysis
Motion Analysis
Work measurement
 Layout Improvement


 New Techniques - Shiegeo Shingo

SMED
Poka-yoke

Mathematical optimization
Operations Research
Statistics

New ideas - Reduce total costs associated with inventory - setup, inventory carrying cost and shortage cost.
Develop machines with more intelligence.
Involve operators and supervisors in improvement activities apart from industrial engineers and managers.
Strong belief,  commitment and effort for continuous improvement.

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Pub. 24.12.2013