Toyota Production System (Tmm)

Since its inception, the Toyota Motors Manufacturing, USA, Inc. (TMM) has been able to make tremendous improvements in terms of production levels, quality, and efficiency. The company produces, power train, engines, and axles which are then forwarded to the sheet metal stamping, plastic molding, painting, body welding, and assemble sections. In all the sections, TMM has implemented Toyota Production System (TPS) and other management tools to guide the daily processes. The various support functions have also benefited from the TPS and other quality management tools with the outcome being increases productivity and production of high quality cars.

Even though a lot of progress has been made, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Georgetown Kentucky factory

The Toyota Production System is an aspect of lean manufacturing (Betz 34). The company has integrated it in almost all its processes and operations. Apart from putting in place the right kind of procedures and processes to facilitate the implementation of JPS, Toyota Motor Manufacturing has ensured that its staff follows the principles of lean manufacturing. It also entails the constant reevaluation of the daily activities and practices within the facility to ensure that they are consistent with the set goals (Shingo and Dillon

KFS takes the responsibility of the defective items and replaces them as per the initial order. After the arrival of the special supply, the team at TMM has to go out of their schedule to fix the new seats into cars outside the usual assembly line. Even among the new seat that are supplied, defects are at times noted leading to even more problems. The mere fact that the seats meant to replace the original ones may also have defects is a pointer that the problem may be coming from the side of the supplier. KFS is therefore required to reorganize its operations and address the quality issue once and for all so that no time is wasted redoing the seats. Since KFS has also implemented some aspects of the TMS, it can effectively deal with the seat issue by reviewing its operations to determine the sections of the manufacturing process that is causing defects. Moreover, its employee need to be enlightened on some of defect detection approaches which are being used at TMM so that they enhance the quality of the products supplied to the