ACTIVITY #7—REFLECTION

Direction: Watch the Toyota Production Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=k4-eJsFdxaU) and make a reflective writing on Toyota’s use of Enterprise
Resource Planning and Lean Production or Real-Time Reaction.
“REFLECTION”
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Toyota is one of the leading car companies worldwide. They are known for durable,
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efficient and affordable but also the have expensive cars with massive features such
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as sports car and hybrid cars. The question in people's mind is that, how do these
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guys produce thousands of these cars with much qualities, features and
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performance with less or near to none defects. Well, Toyota uses some kind of
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system that manages their production efficiently.

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Every team member of the production is and inspector, while doing there job they

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inspect the quality of the product without defects before they pass on to their

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customers or the next production stage. Their storage as well has enough supplies
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stored until it is needed. This way they wont have to add another schedule in case
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of mass production gets increased. In their production, Toyota uses many robots
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to simultaneously achieve more work within time. But manual labors were a need
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in order to stop the automation when it faces some problems.
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Toyota's production is so meticulous such that the team members in some production
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stage must wear suits that wont affect the quality of the products. They use pull
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system in their JIT concept. Where machines pull out the materials to the production
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not like traditional manufacturing that uses Push System. In this method they can
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only pull materials when in need, just how much is needed and can produce
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what is needed. Also, Toyota production system uses the term jidoka as a concept.
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For Toyota, jidoka means that a machine must come to a safe stop whenever an
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abnormality occurs. Achieving jidoka, therefore, requires building and improving
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systems by hand until they are reliable and safe. They can save tons of materials
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and components with this method.
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The over all production of Toyota is empowered by the concept "kaizen". Team
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members of toyota production experience all kinds of troubles during the process
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this will become the fuel to the improvments of their system. They are driven by
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the kaizen principle or the philosophy of continuous improvement that achieves
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lean.
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By ensuring thorough implementation of jidoka and the Just-in-Time method, They
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increased workers' productivity by adding value and realized the Toyota Production
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System, which enabled Toyota to compete head-on with companies in Europe and the U.S.
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