Abstract— Toyota’s renowned Toyota Production System (TPS) has confirmed the competitive advantage of continuous process improvement in manufacturing. The wide range of industries such as aerospace, metals processing, consumer products etc. have tried to copy TPS system. This system draws a clear distinction between operators own work and work done by his machine in auto cycle modes. Also the operator work is accurately quantified. This makes a very significant departure of Toyota production system from conventional engineering practice prevalent in many old establishments. It follows general rules such as all work is highly specified in its content, sequence, timing, and outcome. Each worker knows who provides what to him, and when. Every product and service flows along a simple, specified path. The man power requirement calculated by TPS concept, results in most optimum utilization of manpower, which is one of the keys to high lobour productivity. In this paper, an attempt is being made to optimize the manpower requirement of one of the section of manufacturing unit by application of TPS concept.

Index Terms— Optimization, Toyota Production System, Productivity Improvement, TACT time, MOST

Cite: A P Kedar, D P Kute, and A V Gadge, " Cycle Time Reduction through Toyota Production System," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 475-479, April 2014.