Charging out of the crisis
Transitioning to the communicative, flexible and self-regulating manufacturing methods of tomorrow usually takes huge amounts of time and effort. But it doesn't have to. Christian Zeller and Wolfram Hackbarth show how crisis-hit companies can re-point their production systems quickly and sustainably.
Christian Zeller, Wolfram W. Hackbarth
August 20, 2020
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With concepts like "just-in-time production", Toyota and its legendary Toyota Production System (TPS) have had a lasting impact on countless companies around the world. When it was introduced in the early 1990s, the Japanese manufacturing system established new standards and benchmarks for the automotive sector and other manufacturing industries. But today we know this legendary production system has to be closely woven into a company's DNA – its strategy, corporate and even national cultures. This takes time – something crisis-hit companies usually don’t have. Luckily, there’s ePS4x from enomyc.