Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. Case:

  

Connect key aspects of ramping up production in the Georgetown plant with benefits to the process: 1. This ensured that the Georgetown plant worked as close to the Tsutsumi plant. This was important because the products were designed and prototyped in the Tsutsumi plant and replicating the production process as closely to the original plant ensured that the products produced in the Georgetown plant were not defective. 2. This enabled the Georgetown employees to experiment and arrive at the same process as designed in Tsutsumi plant. 3. This is similar to learning-by-doing where the employees experience TPS in action rather than reading about it or learning it from a manual. Allowed employees to learn first-hand Built the team with seasoned veterans Persuasion to develop counterparts