So here is Part II as promised.  You’ll remember the paper I quoted in Part I, ‘Toyota production system and Kanban system Materialization of just-in-time and respect-for-human system’, I’m pretty sure some of it got lost in translation but see the bit about human systems – well that is really important.  How do I know […]

Some questions for you; what does LEXUS stand for?  Who was Taiichi Ohno?  And how are they connected. Well, Taiichi Ohno (1912-1990) was a Japanese business man acknowledged as the father of the Toyota Production System.  This was first described by Sugimori et al (Sugimori, Y., Kusunoki, K., Cho, F., Uchikawa, S. (1977) ‘Toyota production […]

With more than 50 years of increasing regulatory oversight, is the API manufacturing industry ready and able to bring manufacture out of the 16th century and into the 21st by applying continuous manufacture? From a scientific standpoint, continuous manufacturing comprises a processing system in a steady state and so would result in robust and reliable […]