Welcome
Thank you for visiting ArtofLean.com. This site was established in
order to provide the ever growing audience of lean practitioners with
some fundamental materials related to the Toyota Production System. I
was fortunate early in my career to have worked for Toyota in Japan and
I learned many valuable lessons. As possible I would like to share them
with you. (More...)
- Supplier Excellence Alliance CEO Conference
- Video: Patterns of Kaizen and A3 Thinking
- LE Post: Lean
Success
- LE Post: Tools,
Rules, Principles, and Wallpaper
- LE Post: Toyota
and Capital Investment
- LE Post: Ohira
Plant and Investment
- LE Post: Always
Room for Improvement
- LE Post: Financial
Benefits
- Toyota
Under
Fire
Book
Review
- When
to
write
an
A3
Report
- A3
Communication
Tips
- Common
Mistakes
in
A3
Reports
- Standardized
Work
- A Continuing Definition Problem
- The Lean Elephant
- Respect for People
- Improvement and Objectives
- Sample Toyota Kanban Flow to Supplier
- Jidoka - Part 2
- Jidoka - Part 1
- What Type of Kaizen?
- Lean Success Stories - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
- It Starts with Leadership
- Focus on Delivering Results
- People, Product, & Process Improvement
- Just in Time 101
- Does Lean Forget Quality at Times?
- The Lean Six Sigma Marriage
- Laws versus Thinking
- Breaking the Dysfunctional Cycle
- Lessons from Director Nakamura
- Still Lots to Learn from Toyota
- 5 Levels of Mastery
- Toyota's Cost Reduction Focus
- Improvement is Usually Not Simple or Easy
- A Methodical Approach to Change Management
