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News Release from: Gemba Press | Subject: 'Workplace Management'
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 July 2007
Ensuring constant improvement in the
workplace
In his book 'Workplace Management', Taiichi Ohno includes stories from his 40 years of trying to set up the Toyota Production System as a way of getting constant improvement.
Gemba Press has published a new English translation of Taiichi Ohno's 'Workplace Management.' Translated by Jon Miller, 'Workplace Management' is a classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production System Ohno delivers lessons on how to effectively manage the 'gemba,' that is, the place where work is performed
Ohno includes stories from his nearly 40 years of struggle to establish the Toyota Production System as a mindset and supporting behaviors of constant improvement.
In the book's 37 chapters, Ohno covers a broad range of topics and lays out the fundamental philosophy of kaizen (continuous improvement) that has made Toyota the most successful automobile manufacturer today.
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