Best Lean Manufacturing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Source: The road ahead

“Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.”

“The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.”

Way Productivity Lean Manufacturing

Author:William E. Conway, Jr.

“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

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Book:The road ahead

Source: The road ahead

“A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.”

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Author:Andy Grove

“You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.”

Long Results Haul Long Haul Kaizen Lean Manufacturing

Author:Masaaki Imai

“Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.”

“I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.”

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Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’”

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Author:Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.”

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Author:Shigeo Shingo

“Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.”

Mean Done Improvement Manufacturing Lean Manufacturing

Author:Shigeo Shingo

“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.”

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Author:Shigeo Shingo

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

Business Cost Lean Manufacturing

Book:Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition

Source: Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition

“And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.”

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Author:Taiichi Ohno

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.”

Mean Spending Improvement Ongoing Involving Kaizen Lean Manufacturing

Author:Masaaki Imai

“Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The world we have created is a product of our thinking.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.”

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Author:Taiichi Ohno

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”

Giving Moments Values Order Lines Waste Customers Cash Reducing Manufacturing Toyota Lean Manufacturing

Author:Taiichi Ohno

“Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.”

Pay Scrap Lean Manufacturing

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.”

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Author:Shigeo Shingo

“It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.”

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Author:Taiichi Ohno

“There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Has Beens Done Use Improvement Experts Lean Manufacturing

Author:Robert Breault