Businesses worldwide are successfully implementing the Toyota Production System to speed up processes, reduce waste, improve quality, and cut costs. While there is widespread adoption of TPS, there is still much to be learned about its fundamental principles.
This unique volume delivers a clear, concise overview of the Toyota Production System and kaizen in the very words of the architect of both of these movements, Taiicho Ohno, published to mark what would have been his 100th birthday. Filled with insightful new commentary from global quality visionaries, Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management is a classic that shows how Toyota managers were taught to think.
Based on a series of interviews with Ohno himself, this timeless work is a tribute to his genius and to the core values that have made, and continue to make, Toyota one of the most successful manufacturers in the world.

"Whatever name you may give our system, there are parts of it that are so far removed from generally accepted ideas (common sense) that if you do it only half way, it can actually make things worse."

全世界的企业都在成功地实施丰田生产系统，以加快流程、减少浪费、提高质量和降低成本。虽然TPS已被广泛采用，但其基本原理仍有许多有待了解的地方。
这一独特的卷提供了一个明确，简洁的概述丰田生产系统和改善在这两个运动的建筑师，大野泰彦的话，出版了纪念他100岁生日。大野泰一的《工作场所管理》充满了来自全球质量梦想家的有见地的新评论，这是一部展示丰田管理者如何被教导思考的经典之作。
基于对大野本人的一系列采访，这部永恒的作品是对他的天才和核心价值观的致敬，这些价值观已经并将继续使丰田成为世界上最成功的制造商之一。
“不管你给我们的系统起什么名字，它的某些部分与普遍接受的观念（常识）相去甚远，如果你只做了一半，实际上会让事情变得更糟。”