TPS
TPS is Flexible
Paul Akers discusses how you must allow flexibility on your Lean system.
Ritsuo Shingo – Total Participation
Paul Akers shares one of the best things he learned from Ritsuo Shingo.
With over 40 years’ experience in lean manufacturing, Ritsuo Shingo started working for Toyota in 1970 and later became the president of Toyota China and Hino Motors. Mr. Shingo currently heads the Institute of Management Improvement, a company started by his father, Dr. Shigeo Shingo, who was instrumental in the creative of the Toyota Production System. Mr. Ritsuo Shingo consults with high-level corporate executives worldwide on the subject of Lean leadership and has extended the commitment to Lean into the next generation of world-class Organizations.