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If we study the various graphic representations of the Toyota Production System, Just in Time, TPM and WCM, it is possible to notice that in these models there is always the recall at the involvement of all the company people.

The neverending improving work is done to get rid from wastes and to improve the value aggregation in work activities and this is the daily focus of a company that follow the Lean Production paradigm. This work can be done efficiently and with a R.O.I. only if the problem solvings workshops are always done with a 360° vision and opennes attitude about the analyzed problems; this is the basic attitude that is required and it is necessary to develop in a lean team work.

The guiding principle behind the "Lean Product Development Process" is the following:

Be Customer Oriented!

To meet the needs of your clients and offer them products that contains what they value most it's necessary to embrace this principle and make it real within your company culture.

It is proved that putting change into effect means that the person or the team who must operate the change is going from the comfort zone to the performance zone.

As already explained widely in the preview of the book “Team Building for Lean Production” (see banner here below), the comfort zone can be defined as the combination of ways of thinking and habits that a person or a work team has no interest in changing.

In the process of implementing Lean Manufacturing culture, it is essential to know how to communicate correctly what Lean Production is.

Knowing about the way of thinking of our collaborators makes the process of communication with our listener efficient and harmonious.

Even if they do not say so openly, many “old style” managers think that forming independent work groups is only a waste of time.

They believe that most of the time, the work meetings of a team are: unproductive, too long and lead to insufficient results.

The reason for this is that, deep down, they definitely know how things must be done and what the best solutions for the company are.

Motivation is energy in movement, its effect is an impulse which runs along the nerves and makes us immediately move from the chair to get the remote control or to rush out of bed early in the morning to get to the beach or to finally do that thing we hate to do and that we have been continually postponing.

Lean Production is founded on team work; this ensures that the basic skill for launching and leading the Lean culture implementation to success is (even before all of its methods) the management of a work group. If we are unable to manage and motivate a work group, then we will never be able to implement Lean production.

If you want things and people around you to change, first of all you must change. The solutions for achieving the objectives that you set come from the quality of the questions you ask yourselves.

If we want to obtain quality solutions to our problems, we must ask ourselves quality questions, this is the essential premise for finding quality solutions.

For a few weeks now we have been witnessing some events which will probably further worsen the economic crisis currently taking place in Italy.

The devaluation of the Yuan 

In an effort to return competitiveness to industry, China has devaluated its currency by 10%.

At the basis of the various “temples” which represent Total Production Maintenance or the Toyota Production System, there is always the 5S method in one way or another..
This tells us that this method is fundamental and unavoidable for the companies who are interested in achieving Lean Production.