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A Model for Improvement Program Execution – The Complete TWI Summit Presentation from School Specialty's Tim Dove Article/Whitepaper

A Model for Improvement Program Execution – The Complete TWI Summit Presentation from School Specialty's Tim Dove

By: TWI Institute Team
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The Roots of Lean: Training Within Industry: The Origin of Kaizen Article/Whitepaper

The Roots of Lean: Training Within Industry: The Origin of Kaizen

By: TWI Institute Team
TWI remains a model for training people in industry and may well be the ground zero of Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen.
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The Secrets of Isao Kato, Toyota’s Master Trainer Article/Whitepaper

The Secrets of Isao Kato, Toyota’s Master Trainer

By: TWI Institute Team
Gain intimate knowledge and insight into how Standardized Work can yield dramatic results through a people-focused program heretofore taught only in Japan.
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Summary Notes from Art Smalley Interview with Mr. Isao Kato, Topic: TWI Influences on TPS & Kaizen Article/Whitepaper

Summary Notes from Art Smalley Interview with Mr. Isao Kato, Topic: TWI Influences on TPS & Kaizen

By: TWI Institute Team
Insider insights from the man who was there at the beginning when TWI was introduced into Toyota.
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Creating an Adaptable Workforce: Using the Coaching Kata for Enhanced Environmental Performance Article/Whitepaper

Creating an Adaptable Workforce: Using the Coaching Kata for Enhanced Environmental Performance

By: TWI Institute Team
The Improvement Kata is not about immediate results. Instead, it’s about guiding the learner through the improvement corridor.
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The Role of Front-line Ideas in Lean Performance Improvement Article/Whitepaper

The Role of Front-line Ideas in Lean Performance Improvement

By: TWI Institute Team
A great many Lean initiatives have fallen short of what is possible, because they have failed to incorporate a critical component needed for success – a high-performing idea system. Without such a system, a company could be ignoring as much as 80 percent of its improvement potential.
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Why Standard Work is not Standard: Training Within Industry Provides an Answer Article/Whitepaper

Why Standard Work is not Standard: Training Within Industry Provides an Answer

By: TWI Institute Team
"You can do TWI without Lean, but you can’t do Lean without TWI." - Jim Huntzinger
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Basic Stability is Basic to Lean Manufacturing Success Article/Whitepaper

Basic Stability is Basic to Lean Manufacturing Success

By: TWI Institute Team
Taiichi Ohno and Toyota struggled mightily in the early 1950s to create and maintain basic stability. Then they got TWI.
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Training Within Industry in the United States Article/Whitepaper

Training Within Industry in the United States

By: TWI Institute Team
A comprehensive review of the wartime TWI programs, given in April 1946 by C. R. Dooley, one of the founders of the program, from TWI’s initial inception to wider adaptation in offices, hospitals and agriculture throughout the war.
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Training, Continuous Improvement, and Human Relations: The U.S TWI Programs and the Japanese Management Style Article/Whitepaper

Training, Continuous Improvement, and Human Relations: The U.S TWI Programs and the Japanese Management Style

By: TWI Institute Team
The quintessential research article that brought the TWI programs back from obscurity and reintroduced them into the US (and the rest of the world) from their continuing practice in Japan after the end of WWII.
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Going Lean in Healthcare Article/Whitepaper

Going Lean in Healthcare

By: TWI Institute Team
“People are not cars!” But it turns out that, although healthcare differs in many ways from manufacturing, there are also surprising similarities and Lean principles have a positive impact.
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Toyota Assembly Line Inspires Improvements at Hospital Article/Whitepaper

Toyota Assembly Line Inspires Improvements at Hospital

By: TWI Institute Team
“It saves pain and suffering for the poor patients, and then it saves an enormous amount of money by reducing the amount of time a patient stays in the hospital.”
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