How Toyota Integrates Product Development

How Toyota Integrates Product Development

1. Social Processes

   • Mutual Adjustment
     • Face to Face contact
     • Written Communication
     • Meetings for intensive problem solving
   • Close Supervision
     • Mentor, train, and develop their engineers
     • Functions Evaluated based on overall system performance
   • Integrate leadership
     • Project leader as system designer

2. Standarization

   • Standard Skills
     • Rotation on intervals
   • Standard Work Processes
     • Standard Milestones
     • Forms and procedures that are simple
     • Use them and updated as needed
   • Design Standards
     • Maintained by the people doing the work

3. The six mechanisms make up a whole system

   • Integrated product-development processes
     • developed and implemented as coherent system
   • balance the demands of functional expertise