《TheToyotaWay.ppt

丰田家属谱 2013年 世界500强排名 * Now, I would like to explain the historical background behind TPS. In 1902 Mr. Sakichi Toyoda invented a loom that would stop automatically if any of the threads snapped. The founding president of Toyota Motor Corporation, Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda, undertook automotive manufacturing in 1933. The Pacific War broke out in 1941. * In 1949, a super belt-tightening policy called “Dodge’s Line” was implemented to reconstruct public finance after the War. Toyota, having resumed 生产 in 1950, was directly affected by the Dodge’s Line and ran into financial difficulties. Furthermore, Toyota could not receive any support from the bank and the steel company, and it was forced to split off the sales area into a separate company. After a heated labor dispute, 2000 workers were laid off. The experience at that time became the background to establish the Toyota 生产 系统. In 1952, Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda, who resigned to take the responsibility for financial crisis, was informally reinstated as the president, after the business was recovered by special procurements from the Korean War. However, he passed away at the age of 57. * Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda’s philosophy was “When Toyota gets back on its feet, lets build up a management culture that never relies on the support of banks. ” This strong philosophy was taken over by Mr. Taizo Ishida, Mr. Eiji Toyoda and Mr. Taiichi Ono. It was the beginning of the Toyota 生产 系统. * Generally, it is said that the Toyota Production System arose due to the background shown on this slide. Industrial productivity of Japan after the World War Ⅱ was one-ninth that of the US. Taking into consideration the market size of Japan at that time, rapid production expansion could not be anticipated. In fact, the number of production vehicles in Toyota in 1950 was 11,000 units. This was one-four hundredth of GM. Under this situation, TMC had to create an original Japanese production system to produce vehicles cost-competitive against GM an