Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A. Inc.

I.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


Toyota Motors Manufacturing faces increasing capers with its supply of derrieres. TMMs single undersurface supplier, Kentucky Framed Seat, is responsible for most of the toilet problems that TMM faces. Material flaws and scatty parts are the major defects that TMM encounters. These problems increasingly occurred when the demand for the lay and the number of varieties increased.

We are recommending the following major measures to overcome these problems:

urge a approximate relationship with KFS and the TMM QC personnel.
Facilitate a closer relationship with the Japanese designers and KFS.
KFS executives and quality control people should be taught by the TMMs people to incorporate the Toyota Production System.
The TMM QC should be helping KFS to identify and solve their current problems.
A regularize IT system should be implemented to facilitate information rallying and problem detection.
We are recommending to keep the number of varieties of lowlifes to a minimum since the increase in variety significantly assign the problems.
Keep enforcing the TPS philosophy encapsulating (JIT, Heijunka, Jidoka, Kaizen, etc.) not just at TMM precisely introducing it at KFS and their other suppliers.



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ANALYSIS


When a defective seat has been found, it is Toyotas schema to solve the problem on cables length. However, currently the vehicles with seat problems are mostly dealt with after the assembly is completed, since stopping the nervous strain to repair or replace the seat takes too long. This strategy contradicts Toyotas jidoka policy, the problem is not solved at the line but rather a seat is ordered, which only extends the problem. Although KFS delivers seat replacements twice a day, sometimes KFS sends the wrong seat assemblies and this problem seems not to be dealt with effectively as shown by the event of four day old vehicles in the overflow put area.

The problems are being shifted down from the assembly line to the...If you exigency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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