Toyota Lean Obeya Seeks Savings

Toyota marshals its workforce to seek lean manufacturing savings, in war-room style, using an obeya to coordinate and accelerate cost improvements. The obeya is used to manage the project, monitor progress, and adapt to dynamic conditions with project managers living in the space. Toyota's Woodstock site is deploying these aggressive techniques to achieve savings. ...

... "But with the global automobile industry mired in its worst crisis in a quarter-century, even Toyota’s latest standards for lean manufacturing are not good enough. " ...

Via New York Times: Toyota Lean Strategy

The Toyota obeya strategy pays off. ...

Obeya via shmula: "Obeya was used to bring decisions much earlier in the product lifecycle ... "



Obeya projects leverage strong communication techniques. ...

New Product Development via Goodrich (PDF): "Visual project coordination is a central part of the Obeya concept ... "

Obeya visual controls were used to develop the Prius.