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Winner Of The 2007 Shingo Prize For Excellence In Manufacturing Research!
The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company. All industries, especially automotive, are slashing product development lead times in the current hyper-competitive marketplace. This book is the first to thoroughly examine and analyze the truly effective product development methodology that has made Toyota the most forward-thinking company in the automotive industry.
In The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and Technology, James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker compare and contrast the world-class product development process of Toyota with that of a U.S. competitor. They use extensive examples from Toyota and the U.S. competitor to demonstrate value stream mapping as an extraordinarily powerful tool for continuous improvement.
Through examples and case studies, this book illustrates specific techniques and proven practices for dealing with challenges associated with product development, such as synchronizing multiple disciplines, multiple function workload leveling, compound process variation, effective technology integration, and knowledge management.
Readers of this book can focus on optimizing the entire product development value stream rather than focus on a specific tool or technology for local improvements.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11834 in Books
- Published on: 2006-03-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"If youre among the many who have been waiting for a definitive book about Lean Product Development, your wait is over. The Toyota Production System has become extraordinarily famous as well as widely admired and copied in companies around the world. Yet, its product development system is unquestionably as important for Toyotas success as is its production practices, if not more so. The quality performance and broad product appeal among an ever-widening spectrum of customers are undeniable and directly attributable to the efficacy of the companys product development and engineering organization. This book provides both the big picture context and the detail youll need to understand the fundamental differences between conventional approaches and thinking toward development and Toyotas lean approach. Place this book on an easy-to-reach shelf - you will refer to it over and over, for a long time to come."
John Shook President, TWI Network, Inc.,, Author, Learning to See, February 23, 2006
"Absolutely brilliant. This is the most important breakthrough in understanding Toyotas runaway success since Lean Thinking. It has long been common knowledge that most of the cost, quality and attractiveness of a product are determined in the development process, and that Toyota engineers its designs for customer value and lean manufacturing. This insightful book finally gives away the secrets of Toyotas Product Development System, and will allow you to create your own lean development process: read it, and theres no turning back."
Freddy Balle & Michael Balle, Authors, The Gold Mine, February 23, 2006
"By combining Jeff Likers comprehensive insights into the whole Toyota system with Jim Morgans experience in product development plus his fine-grained investigation of the Toyota development system, they have finally put the whole puzzle together. All that remains is for you to study this volume carefully - and it does demand careful study because it presents a complete system integrating people, process, tools, and technology - and then to transform your own development system."
From The Foreword By James P. Womack, Co-Author, The Machine that Changed the World, February 28, 2006
"Product Development is one of the key frontiers of lean thinking in the coming years. Learn how to turn the tables on the competition by reading this book."
Daniel T. Jones, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy, UK, Co-author, The Machine that Changed the World, February 28, 2006
"How does Toyota do it? This book explores how, presenting both the big picture and providing great details. It describes the "chief engineer system" Toyota employs and discusses product development value stream mapping. It speaks to culture change and design technology. Its also rife with examples and case studies"
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From the Publisher
2007 SHINGO PRIZE WINNER!
About the Author
Dr. James Morgan has more than 24 year experience in automotive product development and operations management including almost 20 years at TDM, a tier one automotive supplier of engineering services, tools and vehicle subsystems where he was Vice President. He holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from the University of Michigan where he completed a three year, Shingo Award winning comparative study of Toyota and a North American competitor's product development systems.
Dr. Morgan's research has lead to a coherent systems model of lean product development which he has utilized in analyzing and improving the development systems of several Fortune Fifty companies in both the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Morgan has published a number of articles and developed and taught classes and seminars at The University of Michigan, the Lean Enterprise Institute, the Lean Enterprise Academy, and the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Dr. Morgan is currently an Engineering Director at Ford Motor Company.
Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Liker has authored or co-authored over 70 articles and book chapters and seven books. He is author of the international best-seller, The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer, McGraw Hill, 2004. The companion practical implementation guide,(with David Meier) The Toyota Way Fieldbook, Mcgraw Hill, 2005 (2005 Shingo Prize winner), details how companies can learn from the Toyota Way principles. He is also the Editor of Becoming Lean: Experiences of U.S. Manufacturers (Productivity Press, 1997), winner of the 1998 Shingo prize. Other books by Dr. Liker include Engineered in Japan, (Oxford University Press, 1995); Concurrent Engineering Effectiveness: Integrating product development across organizations (Hanser-Gardner, 1997), and Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Manufacturing Methods (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Customer Reviews
Toyota system- A good book
I bought this book as a part of my classroom text material. It's an interesting book that talks about how Toyota uses its system to achieve lean manufacturing by integrating people, process and technology. This is coupled with the lean design guide book for our text. It is informative.
A must read for those who want to study the next product development frontier!
This book is based on lean product development in the automotive world and has some shortcomings when it comes to applying what Toyota does to other industries. However, with Toyota's success lately their are few arguments against not studying how Toyota approaches product development and applying it to our specific industries. I think the hardest thing for most American companies will be having the long-term discipline to implement what Toyota has done.
Academic Review of New Product Development
Although this book is very popular today, the authors offer no new approaches to new product development. Companies should strive to leapfrog Toyota. Similarly to Demmings' focus on quality, every aspect of Toyota's NPD process was first developed in the USA, which still ranks as the World's leading innovation source.
