Comments on: Jidoka – The Forgotten Pillar

By: Management Improvement Carnival #29 — Lean Blog

Management Improvement Carnival #29 — Lean Blog — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:15:06 +0000

[...] Lean Six Sigma Academy) “Yes, the two pillars of the Toyota Production System – JIT and Jidoka – are absolutely worthless… if you don’t respect [...]

By: Ron Pereira

Ron Pereira — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:45:09 +0000

Hi Naveen, best place to go is the source – Toyota. You can read about the two pillars of TPS here: http://www.toyota-global.com/company/vision_philosophy/toyota_production_system/

By: Naveen

Naveen — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:09:53 +0000

Hi,

Everytime I get a new understanding on Pillars of lean.Somewhere these are told as 2, somewhere 6 or 7. How can I understand the correct one\? Please help.

By: Subsidiarity: A (Medieval) Lean Principle | Lean Six Sigma Academy

Subsidiarity: A (Medieval) Lean Principle | Lean Six Sigma Academy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:28:03 +0000

[...] before anybody else and then respond within the structure of a certain escalation protocol (think jidoka). Those at the local level also do not need a “middle man.” For example, on more than a few [...]

By: What Are Your Thoughts About Toyota’s Situation? | Lean Six Sigma Academy

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:24:50 +0000

[...] lean practitioners understand the concept of Jidoka. It’s a pillar of the Toyota Production [...]

By: JIT and Jidoka are Useless… | Lean Six Sigma Academy

JIT and Jidoka are Useless… | Lean Six Sigma Academy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:02:45 +0000

[...] the two pillars of the Toyota Production System – JIT and Jidoka – are absolutely worthless… if you don’t respect [...]

By: One Year of Blogging! | Lean Six Sigma Academy

One Year of Blogging! | Lean Six Sigma Academy — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:40:07 +0000

[...] Jidoka – The Forgotten Pillar [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:33:00 +0000

EFFICIENCY, NO WASTE, ZERO DEFECTS,
That is what the TPS is all about, It was developed to improve quality (as Mark said) but also, think about Japan after WWII, they were, are and will be a very resource constrained economy. They needed to evolve a way to maximize their output with limited resources. Hence higher quality, with fewer inputs.

EL CID

By: Ron Pereira

Ron Pereira — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:21:00 +0000

Look forward to reading your thoughts on this Mark. I even admit to falling into the Lean is about speed and Six Sigma is about quality. It is so convenient I guess. Convenient as it may be… it is wrong. If knuckle heads like me can figure this out there is hope for anyone. Cheers!

By: Mark Graban

Mark Graban — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:33:00 +0000

Amen, Ron.

I was sent an article/column from a "quality" organization publication... the guy makes the case (wrong headedly) that Lean is all about speed at the expense of quality and Six Sigma is required to maintain quality.

ARGH.

Lean started off being about quality (Jidoka and the Toyoda loom that stopped automatically). It's never been about moving the metal at the expense of quality... that's what Mass Production was all about.

I'll probably blog about that later tonight.