A Collection of Quotes from Taiichi Ohno

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A Collection of Quotes
from
Taiichi Ohno

Reference: Wikipedia
Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer
and businessman. He is considered to be the
father of the Toyota Production System, which
became Lean Manufacturing in the U.S. He
devised the seven wastes as part of this system.
Born: February 29, 1912, Dalian, China
Died: May 28, 1990, Toyota, Aichi Prefecture,
Japan
Books: Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-
Scale Production, Just-in-time for Today and
Tomorrow, Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management,
Workplace Management
Infographic published by Neil Beyersdorf
linkedin.com/in/neilbeyersdorf/

“The key to the Toyota Way and
what makes Toyota stand out is
not any of the individual
elements - but what is important
is having all the elements
together as a system. It must be
practiced every day in a very
consistent manner, not in
spurts.“
- Taiichi OhnoInfographic published by Neil Beyersdorf

“Why not make the work easier
and more interesting so that
people do not have to sweat?
The Toyota style is not to create
results by working hard. It is a
system that says there is no limit
to people's creativity. People
don't go to Toyota to 'work' they
go there to 'think’.“

“Standards should
not be forced down
from above but rather
set by the production
workers themselves.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“Don't look with your
eyes, look with your
feet. Don't think with
you head, think with
your hands.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“All we are doing is looking
at the time line, from the
moment the customer gives
us an order to the point
when we collect the cash.
And we are reducing the
time line by reducing the
non-value adding wastes.“

“People who can't
understand numbers are
useless. The gemba where
numbers are not visible is
also bad. However, people
who only look at the numbers
are the worst of all.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“When you go out into the
workplace, you should be looking
for things that you can do for your
people there. You’ve got no
business in the workplace if you’re
just there to be there. You’ve got
to be looking for changes you can
make for the benefit of the people
who are working there.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“The slower but consistent
tortoise causes less waste and is
more desirable than the speedy
hare that races ahead and then
stops occasionally to doze. The
Toyota Production System can
be realized only when all the
workers become tortoises.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“If you are going to do kaizen
continuously you've got to assume that
things are a mess. Too many people just
assume that things are all right the way
they are. Aren't you guys convinced
that the way you're doing things is the
right way? That's no way to get anything
done. Kaizen is about changing the way
things are. If you assume that things
are all right the way they are, you can't
do kaizen. So change something!“
- Taiichi Ohno

“All we are doing is looking at
the time line, from the moment
the customer gives us an order
to the point when we collect the
cash. And we are reducing the
time line by reducing the non-
value adding wastes.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“Costs do not exist
to be calculated.
Costs exist to be
reduced.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“Where there is
no Standard
there can be no
Kaizen.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“The more inventory
a company has, the
less likely they will
have what they
need.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“The only place that
work and motion are
the same thing is the
zoo where people pay
to see the animals
move around.“

“And we are
reducing the time
line by reducing the
non-value adding
wastes.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“We are doomed to
failure without a
daily destruction of
our various
preconceptions.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“Data is of course
important in
manufacturing, but I
place the greatest
emphasis on facts.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“My first move as the
manager of the
machine shop was to
introduce standardized
work.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“Standards should not
be forced down from
above but rather set
by the production
workers themselves.“
- Taiichi Ohno

“Ask 'why' five
times about
every matter.“
- Taiichi Ohno

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