A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint

This is the "green book" that started it all -- the first book in English on JIT, written from the engineer's viewpoint. When Omark Industries bought 500 copies and studied it companywide, Omark became the American pioneer in JIT.

Here is Dr. Shingo's classic industrial engineering rationale for the priority of process-based over operational improvements in manufacturing. He explains the basic mechanisms of the Toyota production system, examines production as a functional network of processes and operations, and then discusses the mechanism necessary to make JIT possible in any manufacturing plant.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Publisher's Foreword
Preface for the Japanese Edition
Preface for the Original English Translation
Preface for the Revised English Translation

Part One : Fundamental Production Improvement
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Improving Process
Chapter 3 : Improving Operations
Chapter 4 : Conclusions on Developing Non-Stock Prodution

Part Two : A Study of the Toyota Prodution System From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
Chapter 5 : The Principles of the Toyota Production System
Chapter 6 : Mechanics of the Toyota Production System: Improving Process-Schedule Control and Just-in-Time
Chapter 7 : Mechanics of the Toyota Production System: Improving Process-Leveling and the Nagara System
Chapter 8 : Mechanics of the Toyota Production System: Improving Operations
Chapter 9 : The Evolution of the Kanban System
Chapter 10 : Some Peripheral But Important Issues
Chapter 11 : The Future Course of the Toyota Production System
Chapter 12 : Implementing the Toyota Production System
Chapter 13 : The Tyota Production System in Summary
Chapter 14 : Afterword

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