Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

- Taiichi Ohno

Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately appar…

- Taiichi Ohno

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

- Taiichi Ohno

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

- Taiichi Ohno

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's…

- Taiichi Ohno

The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.

- Taiichi Ohno

When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forwar…

- Taiichi Ohno

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

- Taiichi Ohno

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

- Taiichi Ohno