Quotes from Taiichi Ohno

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

Only the Gemba Can Do Cost Reduction

Machine cycle time and manual cycle time are still mixed up all over the world.

To implement the Toyota production system in your own business, there must be a total understanding of waste. Unless all sources of waste are detected and crushed, success will always be just a dream.

Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

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 that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.

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'.

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

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.