Article/Whitepaper If the Worker Hasn’t Learned the Instructor Hasn’t Taught By: TWI Institute Team Fundamentals of Job Instruction and Job Relations proved their worth in healthcare in 1943 and have not changed since. View Content
Article/Whitepaper We Cannot Afford to Hurry: Training Within Industry Applied to Nursing By: TWI Institute Team TWI applied to nursing during WWII, not only in manufacturing where it was founded View Content
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. View Content
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. View Content
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. View Content
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. View Content
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. View Content
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. View Content
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. View Content
Article/Whitepaper All Workers Have Feelings By: TWI Institute Team “It is the people in these plants, working together, who are producing.” – Walter Dietz, 1945 View Content
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.” View Content
Article/Whitepaper Toyota-Style Management Drives Virginia Mason By: TWI Institute Team Take an in-depth look at how the Toyota Production System is enhancing healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. View Content