Why Hondas Run Great - JIT Manufacturing, 5S Methodology and Kaizen

It took more than nice slogans and superficial corporatism for Honda in particular and Japan on the whole to become the absolute 🐐 of motorcycle manufacturing.

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Directed and Edited by Aneesh Shivanekar

[calebshort]

As a former Toyota employee I can’t begin to tell you how happy this video made me. The ability to say hey this isn’t working we need to fix it here is my idea and having the problem fixed that day was amazing.

[tshwashere]

I love the fact that the video itself is an illustration of kaizen. Brilliant.

[felipecouto]

Man, i must say... 2 things.

1. As a former designer at honda motorcycles, seing the 5S's here got me very nostalgic.
Its a thing everywhere in the company, every department. Early in the year we would even apply the 5Ss in our personal spaces, such as tables and working zones to ensure all would be organized in the new year to come.
And the 5Ys as well, me and my colleagues even won an internal competition for improvements within the company by finding potential zones that could be reworked. 5Ys really worked.


And the other thing i must say:

This video cinematography made it a pleasure to watch. Some beautiful shots and nicely framed imaging. Clean frames, pure eye candy for me.

[bimotavdue]

"Success is 99% failure" - Soichiro Honda

[Ezeme]

Starting a 50 year old motorcycle without any hiccups is the biggest flex of honda.

I am the 3rd owner of a 28 year old xlr200, with love and care (and enough cash) it starts the same like in the video.

honda is like the toyota of motorcycles

[oguzhancetin_mech]

Explaining Kaizen in a video by applying Kaizen steps in the same video. Simply brilliant!

[Perry_dAccard]

My dad used to work for the Swiss federal railways as atrain driver / instructor. At some point they wanted to introduce Kaizen, so they sent a bunch of clueless suits to Japan who completely misunderstood how Kaizen works, and then proceeded to tell seasoned veterans how to do their jobs, not having the slightest idea what they were talking about. That said, my dad then wondered what Kaizen really was about, since in a previous job with Subaru, he had seen first hand, how efficient the Japanese solve problems. So he did some research and came to the conclusion, that it was what he and his colleagues were practicing all along. Management just needed a fancy word to legitimize a dictatorship of the clueless.

[GeneralChangFromDanang]

5S is great when a company actually implements it properly. Unfortunately, most US companies only focus on the cost savings aspect of it and ignore the other principles.

[krrk]

As an ex-Honda R&D engineer I couldn't be happier watching this knowing that there are some people understand how hard it takes to make a reliable vehicle. It's not as easy as people think.
Also reminded me back in the days how many "revised drawings" I had to make on schedule because of this darn Kaizen lol.

[pastaramen]

The long single takes, the videography, the dialogue delivery and the message everything is just top notch.

[iantakaoka]

Fortnine using his sponsor segment to highlight continuous improvement as part of the lesson made my day.

[TiagoRuivo]

A motorcycle channel, showing us the power of a script. Brilliant!

[clarencecrowcarter]

I can't think of a channel that uses the yt platform better than F9. In any genre. Truly world class stuff.

[SteddyEddie]

As an owner of a CB750K6 that starts cold with one kick every time and runs like a sewing machine, if I want a reliable classic my go-to is always Honda. When I lived in Okinawa for 7 months and traveled to mainland Kumamoto, I spent my free time having my jaws drop going to every motorcycle maintenance shop and every dealership I could find and talking to the owners and maintainers. Nothing will ever compare to what I saw and experienced. The quality of all the work was impeccable. The pride in the work was exemplary. The shops were completely organized and clean. Every bike I saw, must have been in the hundreds, looked like it was just rolled off the factory line and onto a showroom floor for sale. These bikes, were more than 50-60 years old. The standard of their work was above and beyond anything I have ever seen. Much respect. I came back to the States saddened and forever will be taking serious pride and being meticulous and patient in the maintenance of my Yamaha’s and Honda’s.

[tiagoagostinho]

"Flagged Youtube Terms" at 1:34 😂😂

[aj_mcnamara]

Every engineer and manufacturing employee needs to watch this! I've never seen Lean, Kaizen, 5Why, and more all summarized so clearly.

[vizualjockey]

I’m really appreciating Ryan’s presentation skills, his ability to memorize and deliver dense scripts in such long takes. Takes a lot of skill and practice. Then applying kaizen to the script and video format was a nice touch. The camera work was also pretty solid, especially hopping in the vehicle seamlessly after the sponsor add, the timing of the script on/off the bike, the coordination and pacing of everything on and off screen. You guys are really elevating the craft of youtube production.

Well done!

LOL at the Easter egg on the blackboard!

[russellcollins]

This deserves an award. Great storytelling with a topic that takes thinking about a culture most of us do not have a lot of experience with. I work in software engineering and these principles still apply. I'll be sharing this video around my crew. Incredible work, everyone! You should be very proud of what you pulled off here.

[noseboop]

After the big tsunami earthquake of 2011, the automakers and many other companies revised the 'Just in Time' philosophy to build some amount of inventory of parts to weather a major disruption in the supply. This is why Toyota and Honda managed to keep building cars about a year longer during COVID before running out of parts, compared to their American and European peers who mostly stayed Just in Time.

[jonathangodbout]

Those long takes are masterful. I feel a lesser channel would've gone with the quick images seen at the end as the actual channel, but the entire video just flows so well.