The real message here is: "adopt and adapt technology that supports your people and processes."
Jeffrey Liker - Aug 27, 2020
Society has reached the point where one can push a button and be immediately deluged with technical and managerial information. This is all very convenient, of course, but if one is not careful there is a danger of losing the ability to think. We must remember that in the end it is the individual human being who must solve the problems.
—Eiji Toyoda, Creativity, Challenge and Courage, Toyota Motor Corporation, 1983
In the 1990s Toyota’s principles of production equipment became “simple, slim, and flexible,” which some people might interpret as “go slow and be cautious in adopting new technology.” In today’s age of lightning speed technological change, particularly in the digital world, I believe that would be a mistake. The real message here is: "adopt and adapt technology that supports your people and processes." The starting point is this: where are real needs that technology can address to help achieve your goals? This is a question of pulling technology based on the opportunity, instead of pushing the technology because it is the latest fad.
This simple lesson grows more relevant every day.
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.........Akio Toyoda clear sees the possibility of
combining the best of the new technology with the creativity of thinking
people In a recent speech he said: “Two concepts -- automation with
people and Just-in-Time -- are the pillars of the TPS. What both have in
common is that people are at the center. I believe that the more
automation advances, the more the ability of the people using it will be
put to the test. Machines cannot improve unless people do, too.
Developing people with skills that can equal machines and senses that
surpass sensors is a fundamental part of Toyota's approach.”
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