Operations Improvement Plan Implementation

Operations Improvement Plan Implementation

Introduction

Toyota is a Japanese multinational company which was founded in 1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda. Toyota first caught the attention of the world in 1980, when its existence came to be something special and brought a better Japanese technology to give better efficiency and quality to its customers. These Japanese cars lasted longer than the American cars and required very few repairs.

Toyota is striving to keep pace with the rapid expansion of the business and technological changes in the current situation. These pressures for changes are exerted by: meet demand, expand the ambitions and the increasing rate of technological change. Company has taken certain strong steps for reducing its inefficiency program that deteriorate its market value. An operations Improvement Plan has to be implemented for taking care of the faulty products being produced and led the company to build underutilized plants. The ongoing process has excessively enunciated, but at some moment this program is abrupt which has created a big nuisance in the leadership quality. The leadership of Toyota did not response to the problems of accelerator pedal despite passing months and years (Mackenzie, 2010).

Problem Statement

To analyze the effects of Lean production approach in Toyota's Company product and crash accident causes.

Discussion

Key challenges

A car crash occurred due to the problems in the accelerator pedal of the Toyota car. The reason to the crash was later revealed to claim that there were wrong floor mats installed in the driver's side, which was interfering the accelerator pedal and caused the accident to kill the driver. The Toyota Company has to listen from the victim's family and face problems from the increasing deaths of people due to the wrong placement of floor mats in Toyota vehicles. The Company had hired a researcher team for the purpose if analyzing the main issue. This can be possible by scrutinizing the issuer with that victim who faced crash accident situation (Cole, 2011).

For this, the company has needed to implement certain steps that help them to restrict their lean management program. This can be awful by implementing robust strategies. The operational effectiveness and lean manufacturing of Toyota refers to be the best in production process to benefit them with reduced lead time and production cost. The lean production is an effective tool that helps the company to eradicate all those methods which has wasted time, cost and other things during the production. It helps to enhance the proficiency of product and company reputation. The lean production is about producing more with fewer resources that means less time, inventory, space, labor, and money. Lean Manufacturing is the best manufacturing system for Toyota Corporation that systematically eliminates waste such as overproduction, transportation, motion, defective units and the execution of the concepts of continuous flow and customer pull. Unfortunately, with a decrease in waste comes a decrease in quality. Though, the lean production process has not systematically implemented due to which, the company has faced issues in their product. The quality of product has lessened which left ...