Formation Process On The Toyota Production System And Applied Research In The Chinese Enterprises

Japanese economic bubble burst in 1,990. Since then Japan is suffering from a long period of economic depression, but Toyota is keeping solid growth while other companies are struggling. Its total sales and profit rise continuously and it is the top company of Japan each year. All these achievements make the Toyota production way the focus of the domestic researchers' attention again in the whole country.Because of the transfer of the international manufacturing and the abundant cheap Chinese labor force, China is becoming the international manufacturing center during recent years. But Chinese manufacturing can't take part in the international competitions only depending on its low labor costs. If it wants to have powerful competitive predominance in a short time, it eagerly needs to engage Toyota production way, which represents the reforming direction of the international manufacturing, including its spirit, concept, ideas and methods. But now Chinese companies' circumstance and productive level are far from Japanese, American and European. How to introduce Toyota production way into such Chinese companies soon is just the main point that this paper discusses.At first, this paper puts an emphasis on the whole formative processes of Toyota production way.Especially, the paper breaks a new path in researching the formative processes of Toyota production way through the study of the relationship between the key character Taiichi ohno's promotion and the development of Toyota proution way. This fresh angle of view is an important creation. The practice of Toyota production way began from late 1940's or early 1950's by Taiichi ohno. Every innovation like the one-to-several manipulation, the standardized operation, the quick replacement or the adjustment of equipment's composition needs a long time effort. It costs more than 20 years for . Toyota production way generally coming into being. This Toyota production way developed faster when Taiichi ohno was the chief executive director and took full responsibility for the company's administrative department and technical department. The company carried out a series of measures: establishing a new organization forpromoting Toyota production way like productive investigation department; assembling all the promoting experts of Toyota production way in the company; compiling a systematic tutorial; enforcing the regular merit system to cultivate and elevate supervisors in the whole company, especially in the middle class; and organizing the Toyota production way's independent seminars between the sections of Toyota group to spread this way to the related companies.Basing on the former researchers' achievements, this paper points out an all-around calendar of the formative processes of Toyota production way and a relationship table of Taiichi ohno's promotion. From these tables, it can be easily found out that Toyota production way is not a simple one. It closely relates to the staff of company's rational suggestions, TQC, TPM, the whole company's cost cutting activity, etc. Also the formative process of Toyota production way can be known comprehensively from the .tables. All the information not only provides wonderful references to Chinese companies when they engage the Toyota production way, but also greatly enhances their confidence of learning and exceeding it. The whole formative processes of Toyota production way was carrying out during 1950's to early 1970's, and Chinese companies' environment and condition now are better than Toyota's at that time, so Chinese companies certainly have the entire qualification to engage Toyota production way.Chapter 3 digs into the whole system of Toyota production way on the basis of the all-around research. And the paper advances a new concept that Toyota production way is a comprehensive system including its spiritual system, ideological system, methodological system and the undertaker of these three systems - the human-machine system. Among all these systems, the human system is the most important one. This concept is one of the new po...