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Toyota is feted for its lean manufacturing, but before the production line beckons there is, what Freddy Ballé and Michael Ballé describe as, lean development. oyota Motor Company’s production system, or This is rarely possible because of the on-going T“lean manufacturing” as it is known, has changes which cross-impact throughout the been extensively studied since the mid- development process. Having largely solved key 1980s. Many companies are now working at issues upfront in its design process, Toyota focuses adopting “lean” practices on their shop floors. But, on precise, tightly scheduled production of the production is only half the manufacturing problem. actual drawings. In the Camry’s case, the number of Toyota’s product development process is just as vehicle prototypes was cut by 65 per cent, and the innovative and counter-intuitive to traditional number of crash tests halved by the use of digital engineering management as lean manufacturing is assembly software. to mass production. According to a National Center This links to the final key to an efficient for Manufacturing Sciences report, Toyota product development process: focusing on quality and cost development projects can take half the time of US in production itself. Drawing on its expertise in lean equivalents, with four times their productivity (150 manufacturing, Toyota examines all aspects of the product engineers utilised by Toyota per car car’s production to make sure that it will be built programme versus 600 for twice as long at within the target