EON Blog

Ever since Toyota revolutionized the world of manufacturing with what has come to be known as the Toyota Production System, countless companies across industry segments have invested significant time, money, and organizational bandwidth to replicate Toyota’s approach and results with their own version of a production system.

Yet despite the relative prevalence of a systemic approach to continuous improvement, there is still some ambiguity about what it means to pursue a production system, how a production system is differentiated from a business system, and how the organization can know if they’ve been successful in implementing a production system.  Let’s take these questions one at a time.