The two pillars of the Toyota production system are just-in-time and automation with a human touch, or autonomation. In 1978, the year of his retirement from Toyota, Executive Vice President Taiichi Ohno published a book describing the Toyota Production System (TPS). TPS is steeped in the philosophy of “the complete elimination of all waste” imbuing all aspects of production in pursuit of the…

Agile Approaches & Agile Methods are umbrellas terms that cover a variety of Frameworks & Methods. Agile is a blanket term for many approaches. If we dig in further, it is interesting, and we can say that Agile & the Kanban Method are Subsets of Lean Thinking that shares lean concepts recorded below: Focus on Value Small Batch Sizes Elimination of Waste Lean thinking is a Super-set Sharing attributes with Agile &…

If I recollect about the World Cup 1996 – World Cup 2003: It is during the period from 1996 to 2003 that Sachin Tendulkar achieved the status of “God of Cricket”. Bowling lineups around the world shook at the sight of this 5-foot 3-inch lad walking on to the pitch. Tendulkar smashed centuries after centuries, tearing apart oppositions with relative ease. To…

Visualization is the representation of an object, situation, or set of information as a chart or other image. For example, video systems allow visualization of the entire gastrointestinal tract. It is a helpful technique for relieving stress. Visualization today has ever-expanding applications in science, education, engineering (e.g., product visualization). Actually, the term Visualization is used to mean different things in…