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If the Worker Hasn’t Learned the Instructor Hasn’t Taught 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.
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We Cannot Afford to Hurry: Training Within Industry Applied to Nursing 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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All Workers Have Feelings 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
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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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Toyota-Style Management Drives Virginia Mason 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.
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