TECH NEWS: IT, TECHNOLOGY - Learn to become as lean as Toyota

Sunday, 05 February 2012 14:39

Learn to become as lean as Toyota

Toyota's production system has been the model for industries worldwide. Now IVF with "SWEP", Swedish Production System - the free guide directly on the web.

Leanresan.se are working name of the manual with the method and job descriptions IVF launches in mid-March.

- Companies that already have some skills in the "lean production" is capable enough to adopt the Japanese method solely with the material we are launching on the web. Others need to supplement with a consultant who learned our methods. But it should suffice with a few hours of consulting, "says Björn Lang Beck on Swerea-IVF.

Introducing "lean production" in English as learning of the Conference Assembly Forum in March.

SWEP and "leanresan.se" is one of the largest investments made in Vinnova More Program.

The total cost is nearly 50 million, of which the companies involved represent more than 30 million. In addition to IVF has been with Chalmers and developed training material, and production people, above all, Volvo and Saab Automobile.

AB Volvo initiated the project and as project manager. The Group produces everything from trucks, buses, and loaders for air and marine engines.

It has therefore been more difficult than, for example, Scania to get to a Toyota-inspired production. Volvo has simply been the step after competitor in Södertälje.

Meanwhile, Volvo, as well as IVF and others, called for a försvenskning of the Japanese production methods - which in Sweden had an American flavor, since most written material from the U.S..

The lean journey "has been washed away because Japanese and American expressions and indications where it has been possible.

- Almost all of the lean journey, however, is Toyota. But it does not always work to the Japanese practice outright. We have tried to get to an easily accessible material to suit Swedish companies, Swedish workers, officials and managers, "says Björn Lang Beck, who over the years worked with the introduction of Toyota methods in about 40 Swedish companies.