Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Implementing Toyota's Lean Manufacturing Principles

The Center has worked with the Teledyne Benthos Company since 2001 in developing lean manufacturing and implementing the principles of the Toyota Product Development System. In the latest issue of Target Magazine, Benthos receives credit for being among the few “elite” companies in the US implementing the Toyota based system. The TPDS improved Benthos development time by 50%. In the Toyota System, engineers test first to gain product knowledge then design and avoid the dreaded, time-consuming loop back of redesign. Too many companies are still trying to manage product development projects by traditional project stage gate methods. They work when a company doesn’t have a good system, but slow, slow, slow and not competitive anymore. Contact us for details on how we might help your company revamp your product development system.

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