Toyota Lean Production Case Study

1. Compare and contrast Toyota revolutionary lean production system with traditional mass production system for making automobiles. How is Toyota system superior? Answers: Comparing and contrasting Toyota revolutionary lean production with traditional mass production system for making automobiles-

Traditional mass production :

• The basic philosophy of mass production is to produce limited product line in a massive quantity to gain maximum economies of scale.

• It takes the advantage of maximum economic of scale

• The time of setting up in this process of production could waste a lot of time.

• Assembly workers of Toyota have to perform single task alone in this long run process.

• The worker become familiar as it is associated with variety of task assigned to them

• Many specialties is needed to perform non assembly operation and inspect the action of the workers. Ex- Forman, Quality inspection etc.

Lean production system of Toyota: Lean production system is the system where the maximize value added by each of a company 's activities by paring necessary resources and delay from them-

• Very little lot size is maintained in the lean production system ,the reason of that is to avoid risk of fall market demand against big investment

• In this system, production workers are directed to perform several tasks with using simple mechanized adjustment.

• The task or step of process Toyota 's lean system allocated into the trained team of workers.

• If any error were found,