Paper
Advanced TPS for Global Production Strategy
- Authors:
- Hirohisa Sakai; Kakuro Amasaka
- Abstract
- To achieve simultaneous, worldwide high quality assurance and other global production developments, today’s task is to maintain high reliability in production facilities. In response to the increasing expansion of overseas plants, it is necessary to improve and maintain highly accurate production equipment through the development of intelligence operators. The authors clarify in this paper Advanced TPS as a global production technology and management model designed to realize high quality assurance in global production. Furthermore, the authors propose V-MICS-VM (Virtual - Maintenance Innovated Computer System – utilizing Visual Manual) that contributes to Advanced TPS utilizing a visual manual that consists of three elements, (i) fundamental skill acquisition (-FSA), (ii) equipment knowledge acquisition (-EKA) and (iii) preventive maintenance acquisition (-PMA). Specifically, the authors developed a visual manual that can be simultaneously distributed and used throughout the world. The effectiveness of this system has been verified in the domestic and overseas Toyota plants.
- Keywords
- Global Production, Intelligence Operator, Advanced TPS, V-MICS-VM, Visual Manual, Toyota
- StartPage
- 91
- EndPage
- 98
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