Industrial Engineering Essay

1107 Words3 Pages

My research paper is on the field of Industrial Engineering. I plan on pursuing this field, because I want to be able to find a way that will help eliminate wastefulness throughout the process of production. In this field, Industrial engineer 's find ways to integrate workers with information, machines, materials, and energy to create and provide products and services, without wasting any of the resources. Their duties are to review schedules, engineering specification, flows of process, and information to understand methods. Industrial Engineers have to figure out how to maximize the efficiency of parts, product, or delivery services. They have to be sure that all their observations, calculations, and the efficiency of the product is at its …show more content…

He Graduated from Nagoya Technical High
School in Nagoya, Japan. After graduation, Ohno was hired by Toyota Automatic Loom Works. The Toyoda Family later sold the business to the British. Ohno then transferred to the Toyota car company, and became a production engineer that managed the production of the Toyota car manufacturing plant. He saw how Toyota’s development was lower and more wasteful than that of the American automotive industry in Detroit. So he came up with an idea to eliminate the waste that Toyota was making. He then implemented his program that would lower costs, waste, and raise the efficiency of Toyota. This program was called the Just-in-Time Program. After the program started, Toyota climbed the manufacturing ladder quickly, due to Ohno’s …show more content…

This method produced and delivered parts to the production line before they needed to be used. It also helped the Toyota Company from going bankrupt to the third most successful automotive dealer in the world behind G.M. and Ford. Ohno visited the United States to learn why they were able to mass produce automotive vehicles. He found out that the American’s had the market that allowed them to create so many vehicles. He went back to Japan and with the help of some associates, and his engineering expertise, he tailor made the Ford production system to fit that of Toyota’s. Coupled with his engineering degree, and his Just-in-Time program, Ohno later became the Vice President of Toyota. After retiring in 1975, he remained an advocate for the Toyota Company. During this time, Ohno wrote books titled, “Toyota Production System”, “Workplace Management”, and “Just-in-Time for Today and Tomorrow.” These books are still read by current and future Industrial Engineers. Today, after his death in 1990, Toyota still used Ohno’s program to help them build their cars more efficient and

Open Document