The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker

The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by:

• Eliminating wasted time and resources
• Building quality into workplace systems
• Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology
• Producing in small quantities
• Turning every employee into a quality control inspector

Jeffrey Liker is a University of Michigan professor of industrial and operations engineering and the president of Liker Lean Advisers, LLC, a group of top-notch lean consultants. He is the author of The Toyota Way, as well as Toyota Way Fieldbook, Toyota Talent, The Toyota Product Development System, Toyota Culture, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, and Toyota Under Fire, which are all international best-sellers. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, co-authored with Gary Convis, is his most recent book. Eleven Shingo Awards have been awarded to his essays and books. He enjoys golf, watching football and basketball, and is relearning classical guitar after a 30-year hiatus. His work is supported by his wife Deb while daughter Emma, and his son Jesse is his harshest critic and finest editor.