The
Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and
Technology
Authors: James M. Morgan, Jeffrey Liker
Availability: In Stock, Product Code: 2822
ISBN: 978-1-56327-282-0
Published: 2006
Pages: 400
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: 6 X 9 "
Illustrated: No
Weight: 23.20 Ounces.
Price: US $40.00
Winner Of The 2007 Shingo Prize For Excellence In Manufacturing Research!
The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is
the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company.
All industries, especially automotive, are slashing product development
lead times in the current hyper-competitive marketplace. This book is
the first to thoroughly examine and analyze the truly effective product
development methodology that has made Toyota the most forward-thinking
company in the automotive industry.
In The
Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and
Technology, James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker compare and contrast the
world-class product development process of Toyota with that of a U.S.
competitor. They use extensive examples from Toyota and the U.S. competitor
to demonstrate value stream mapping as an extraordinarily powerful tool
for continuous improvement.
Through
examples and case studies, this book illustrates specific techniques
and proven practices for dealing with challenges associated with product
development, such as synchronizing multiple disciplines, multiple function
workload leveling, compound process variation, effective technology
integration, and knowledge management.
This valuable
book:
Highlights
the application of value stream mapping methodology to product development.
Identifies and defines the categories of waste that are specific to
the product development process.
Presents countermeasures and proven practices, based on Lean principles,
developed for the product development process used at Toyota.
Illustrates and clarifies the methodology by presenting actual case
examples at Toyota and a U.S. competitor.
Readers of this book can focus on optimizing the entire product development
value stream rather than focus on a specific tool or technology for
local improvements.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Section
One: Introduction
Chapter 1: The New Product Development Revolution
Chapter 2: The Lean Product Development System Model
Section
Two: Process Subsystem
Chapter 3: Establish Customer-Defined Value to Separate Value-Added
From Waste
Chapter 4: Front-Load the PD Process to Explore Alternatives Thoroughly
Chapter 5: Create a Leveled Product Development Process Flow
Chapter 6: Utilizing Rigorous Standardization to Reduce Variation and
Create Flexibility and Predictable Outcomes
Section
Three: Subsystem People
Chapter 7: Creating a Chief Engineer System to Lead Development From
Start to Finish
Chapter 8: Balancing Functional Expertise and Cross-Functional Integration
through Organization
Chapter 9: Develop Towering Technical Competence in All Engineers
Chapter 10: Fully Integrate Suppliers into the Product Development System
Chapter 11: Building in Learning and Continuous Improvement
Chapter 12: Building a Culture to Support Excellence and Relentless
Improvement
Section
Four: Subsystem Tools and Technology
Chapter 13: Adapt Technology to Fit Your People and Process
Chapter 14: Align Your Organization Through Simple, Visual Communication
Chapter 15: Powerful Tools for Standardization and Organizational Learning
Section
Five: Creating a Coherent Lean PD System
Chapter 16: A Coherent System
Chapter 17: Eliminating Waste In The Product Development Value Stream
Chapter 18: Getting to Culture Change: The Heart of Lean PPD
Appendix
Applying Value Stream Mapping to a Product Development Process: The
PeopleFlo Manufacturing Inc. Case by Dr. John Drogosz
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
Review
By: John Shook President, TWI Network, Inc.,, Author, Learning to See
"If you're among the many who have been waiting for a definitive
book about Lean Product Development, your wait is over. The Toyota Production
System has become extraordinarily famous as well as widely admired and
copied in companies around the world. Yet, its product development system
is unquestionably as important for Toyota's success as is its production
practices, if not more so. The quality performance and broad product
appeal among an ever-widening spectrum of customers are undeniable and
directly attributable to the efficacy of the company's product development
and engineering organization.
This book
provides both the big picture context and the detail you'll need to
understand the fundamental differences between conventional approaches
and thinking toward development and Toyota's lean approach. Place this
book on an easy-to-reach shelf - you will refer to it over and over,
for a long time to come."
Review
By: Freddy Balle & Michael Balle, Authors, The Gold Mine
"Absolutely brilliant. This is the most important breakthrough
in understanding Toyota's runaway success since Lean Thinking. It has
long been common knowledge that most of the cost, quality and attractiveness
of a product are determined in the development process, and that Toyota
engineers its designs for customer value and lean manufacturing.
This insightful
book finally gives away the secrets of Toyota's Product Development
System, and will allow you to create your own lean development process:
read it, and there's no turning back."
Review
By: From The Foreword By James P. Womack, Co-Author, The Machine that
Changed the World
"By combining Jeff Liker's comprehensive insights into the whole
Toyota system with Jim Morgan's experience in product development plus
his fine-grained investigation of the Toyota development system, they
have finally put the whole puzzle together. All that remains is for
you to study this volume carefully - and it does demand careful study
because it presents a complete system integrating people, process, tools,
and technology - and then to transform your own development system."
Review
--Industry Week, September 2006 Issue
"How
does Toyota do it? This book explores how, presenting both the big picture
and providing great details. It describes the "chief engineer system"
Toyota employs and discusses product development value stream mapping.
It speaks to culture change and design technology. It's also rife with
examples and case studies"
Review
By: Daniel T. Jones, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy, UK, Co-author,
The Machine that Changed the World
"Product Development is one of the key frontiers of lean thinking
in the coming years. Learn how to turn the tables on the competition
by reading this book."
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