#4 Free Lean Six Sigma Green Belt | The History of Lean Manufacturing

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Learn the unique conditions that created the need for a new way of working, a more efficient, low cost way of working - Lean Manufacturing.

We will take you through history in the automotive sector, from craft production, through to mass production, the Toyota Production System and into the future of Industry 4.0.

Contents of video:

0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Craft production
1:53 - Fred Winslow Taylor
2:36 - Henry Ford
7:23 - Toyota Production System - Lean
09:58 - Lean today
11:09 - Industry 4.0

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There are still minimum stocks kept at the site. A new car is only produced when there is a car retrieved from site and deliver to customer. Vendors producing parts for Toyota may have stock as low as half days stock. This reduces the amount of cash tied to the stock as well as the interest cost that occur from operating expenses.

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Exzellente Rekonstruktion der Geschichte.
Die Zukunft von Lean könnte allerdings zu Ende sein.
Zum Bespiel: Industrie 4.0 ist nicht konpatibel mit Lean, sondern nur mit Taylorismus: Poka Yoke ist lean, Industrie 4.0 ist fat.