Toyota has a way of doing things that revolutionized industry in general. . I trained on it, my manager trained on it, everyone trains on it in manufacturing. It is a proven method of maximizing production and minimizing cost. It is almost as revolutionary as the Ford method. Key words: 5S, Kaizen, Lean.
It doesn't matter what you build, Toyota method is general. When training new managers at my work, we use folding paper cranes as an example. We first let trainees do it the bad way (non-Toyota), then we teach how to divide the workflow the Toyota way, and prove that it's better. Relevant metrics include reducing inventory, reducing rework, reducing QC rejections and maximizing throughput. Of course, for Tesla, those don't matter because it gets government and investor funding, as well as a customer cult that ignores quality problems. For a company that actually wants to sell safe and operational cars, these matter.
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It is . Expanding capacity by building new factories is wasteful compared to understanding Toyota style production.
Tesla's method of "burst production" is the opposite of the Toyota method. That is to say, it is actively bad.
If you have not worked in manufacturing before, you won't understand why Toyota does things the way they do, why the Toyota method works, and why the Tesla method does not work if you don't have unlimited funding.
