Toyota Methods and Operating Models presents a case study of a small, traditional Italian manufacturer in the Toyota Industries Corporation Group, which began an important process of transformation until it became a successful, modern and advanced international business: Toyota Material Handling. Toyota management made internal changes and developed the commercial networks, successfully applying the Toyota Production System (TPS, or Lean Production) as well as the values of the Toyota Way.
Author Stefano Cortiglioni led the transformation project, which took four years. Toyota Methods and Operating Models presents the continuing success story. The authors analyze the Toyota methods and operating models that can be directly applied to your business in order to reach excellence in operations and industry 4.0. It provides tangible advice on how to grow a business and achieve commercial success, with superior processes and logistics networks, as well as the development of an advanced and highly successful supply chain.

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Toyota Methods and Operating Models
Achieve Business Success with the Toyota Way
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Toyota Methods and Operating Models
Achieve Business Success with the Toyota Way
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Titlepage
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction by the Italian Toyota Material Handling organizations
- Preface
- Foreword to the international edition
- Introduction
- Part one From CESAB to Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Italy
- Introduction
- 01 The Toyota Group
- 02 CESAB’s history
- 03 The product
- 04 From Push to Pull
- 05 Production lines
- 06 The planning template
- 07 2S (Seiri and Seiton)
- 08 The system for feeding materials to the lines (logistics)
- 09 The organization within Toyota
- 10 Standardization
- 11 Quality
- 12 Visual management
- 13 Kaizen and efficiency
- 14 The bottom–up approach to ideas
- 15 The supply chain
- 16 Monozukuri and Hitozukuri (making people)
- 17 Toyota and union relations
- 18 Kaizen and financial results
- 19 TPS and Industry 4.0
- Part TWO The operational implementation of the Toyota Way in the commercial and sales processes: the Toyota Material Handling Italia Convention
- 20 Foreword
- 21 The point of view of the dealers
- 22 The evolution of the Italian market for forklifts
- 23 Speech by Leonardo Salcerini
- 24 The new ACCESS model
- Part Three Appendices
- Appendix A: Data
- Appendix B: Reader’s guide to the universe of Toyota Material Handling in Italy
- Business transformation and innovation process: continuous success and the concept of the new cooperative management 4.0
- A summary of the main indicators of continuous success of Toyota Material Handling in Italy
- Continuous success and the value-generating wave of the new cooperative management 4.0
- The continuous success of the Italian Toyota Material Handling organizations driven by the company’s commercial sector
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright
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