Poka-yoke is a Japanese term meaning mistake proofing. It was introduced by Shigeo Shingo as part of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and refers to simple fixes that address small variances in the ...

SMED was developed by Shigeo Shingo, a Japanese industrial engineer who had worked at Toyota. The Single Minute stands for a single digit minute, that is, less than ten minutes. Some of the ...