Classroom: Introduction to the Toyota Kata theory and its use and success at Toyota; Hands-on demonstrations and exercises using a simulation; Why Toyota Kata is successful compared to other management systems; Five-Question Coaching Dialog and Rapid PDCA Cycles; Explanation and Application of Coaching Dialog and PDCA Cycles. Shopfloor: Review of Toyota Kata concepts and principles; Hands-on practice applying the concepts to an actual value stream; Discussion of sustaining the Kata process and roll out.
TEAM SCIENTIFIC METHOD (TSM) 8 hours - $2,600 Team Scientific Method (TSM) is about applying the Toyota Thinking Process and creating conversations around team learning. TSM should be viewed primarily as a celebratory activity, utilizing the recognition of effort to drive the process. The team uses the daily management measures to identify problems/variation within their process and create rapid experiments based on data. Team Scientific Method creates higher level opportunities to apply Scientific Thinking on larger issues, thus cascading the Scientific Thinking up the organization while the measures are cascading down through the organization. TOTAL PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 24 hours - $7,800 TTotal Production Maintenance (TPM) is a company- wide team-based effort to improve equipment performance, which then leads to higher productivity and better quality. The basic tools of TPM and a plan for implementing them are covered. Participants also learn how to calculate and use Overall Equipment Effectiveness, the key metric for measuring equipment performance. This course emphasizes the importance of teamwork and integration between production personnel and the maintenance department. TOYOTA KATA 8 hours - $2,500 Toyota Kata is a lean method that creates a sustainable culture of daily continuous improvement through the use of simple routines. It is not the solution to a problem that makes and keeps an organization successful, it is the ability to continually develop solutions for continually developing process issues that allows an organization to thrive. Nurturing and maintaining this ability to practice continuous improvement is a core responsibility of a company’s leadership team. This tool looks at two particular behaviors that focus on solutions: Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata.
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