LEAN IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES: HOW ARE THE TOYOTA WAY PRINCIPLES ADDRESSED?

How are postural strategies modified along the time?

Postural control is critical for effective performance of all goal-directed activities. For maintenance of postural equilibrium against gravity and environmental disturbances, central nervous system produces centrally organized patterns of muscle activity based on initial conditions, perturbation characteristics, learning and intention. These organized strategies are called "postural strategies...

How are postural strategies modified along the time?

Postural control is critical for effective performance of all goal-directed activities. For maintenance of postural equilibrium against gravity and environmental disturbances, central nervous system produces centrally organized patterns of muscle activity based on initial conditions, perturbation characteristics, learning and intention. These organized strategies are called "postural strategies...

The Toyota Way in Services: The Case of Lean Product Development

Executive Overview Toyota’s Production System (TPS) is based on “lean” principles including a focus on the customer, continual improvement and quality through waste reduction, and tightly integrated upstream and downstream processes as part of a lean value chain. Most manufacturing companies have adopted some type of “lean initiative,” and the lean movement recently has gone beyond the shop flo...

Improving preanalytic processes using the principles of lean production (Toyota Production System).

The basic technologies used in preanalytic processes for chemistry tests have been mature for a long time, and improvements in preanalytic processes have lagged behind improvements in analytic and postanalytic processes. We describe our successful efforts to improve chemistry test turnaround time from a central laboratory by improving preanalytic processes, using existing resources and the prin...

The DNA of Toyota Revisited : Issues and Challenges of Lean Implementation