Open AccessToyota production system - one example to shipbuilding industry
Author(s) -
Delmo Alves de Moura,
Rui Carlos Botter
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
independent journal of management and production
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2236-269X
DOI - 10.14807/ijmp.v8i3.626
Subject(s) - production (economics) , economies of scope , business , industrial organization , scope (computer science) , context (archaeology) , economies of scale , lean manufacturing , mass customization , commerce , shipbuilding , product (mathematics) , manufacturing engineering , operations management , computer science , personalization , marketing , economics , engineering , microeconomics , history , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , programming language , biology
The shipbuilding system can use the techniques used in the Toyota Production System as an example for its production process. Production should be lean, minimize defects, stop production and reduce or eliminate inventories. Lean production is regarded by many as simply an enhancement of mass production methods, whereas agility implies breaking out of the mass production mould and producing much more highly customized products - where the customer wants them in any quantity. In a product line context, it amounts to striving for economies of scope, rather than economies of scale ideally serving ever smaller niche markets, even quantities of one, without the high cost traditionally associated with customization. A lean company may be thought of as a very productive and cost efficient producer of goods or services.