TWI: PROVIDING ESSENTIAL SKILLS OF LEADERSHIP FOR MANAGERS, SUPERVISORS, AND TEAM LEADS

摘要

Given this requirement, the question becomes: How do we best train our workforce? JI provides leaders with a well proven skill for doing just this - training their workforce in standard work. Genuine continuous improvement is just that, continuous. It is not sporadic events to introduce and use "lean tools." It requires a vehicle, a method, a way of thinking for the leader of the work area, used continuously. Again, as for JR and JI, there is evidence that JM came to Toyota and Japanese industry long before lean evolved, in fact, very soon after JI was introduced. Masaaki Imai, in his book Kaizen states, "Less well known is the fact that the suggestion system was brought to Japan by TWI and the US Air Force (about the same time as Deming and Juran - mid '50's)." Later in Imai's book Gemba Kaizen, he credits JM in the development of kaizen.