- Daily Log:
- til2021 Toyota Production Management Principles
- Certain Japanese words are left untranslated in English such as Bonsai, Karate, Karaoke, Futon which are loanwords
- Agile management system uses many principles developed from Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Burnaston
- Andon: A visual indication for action
- Gemba: The physical location of where work is done
- Genchi Genbutsu: Instead of explaining the event, go see for yourself to have a the best understanding of the situation
- Hansei: Retrospective, even for successful tasks
- Jidokai: Design of systems that allows for it to be halted immediately whenever a problem occurs. By catching early defects, this eliminates wastes from mistakes
- Just-in-time: Produce what is needed whenever the customers want it
- Kaizen: Continuous improvement work environment that allows the workers to identify shortcomings and promotes new ideas
- Kanban: A board system to convey the tasks required for production
- Muda: Waste that does not add any value
- Mura: Waste from unevenness or irregularities
- Muri: Waste from overburden
- Poka-Yoke: Devices that halts production when a mistake is detected
- til2021 Loanword
- A word that is left untranslated from another language and permanently adopted as is
- Tofu, Cafe, Kindergarten, Calque, Deja vu
- It differs from calque
- til2021 Calque
- A word or phrase that is translated literally word-for-word from another language
- Skyscraper is a calque in many other languages
- Flea market is a calque from French term marches aux puces (market of fleas)
- Retrospective::
- Daily Stoic::
- quotes “Don’t trust the masses that say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom that say that only the educated are free”
- Reading for knowledge to become freer, bold, and peaceful