The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training

187 Pages·2012·4.433 MB·English

by  Conrad Soltero, Patrice Boutier

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The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training supplies time-tested tools

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their rivals. It explains why a mix of the skill sets that Training Within Industry O
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Bridging the kata/TWI nexus, the book lays out a roadmap for Lean success.
It devotes a chapter to each of the seven kata and suggests possible courses
of action dependent on your organization’s strengths and constraints. Bringing
together valuable information on many of the disjointed Lean practices, it explains
key Lean concepts, including gemba walks, genchi gembutsu, and PDCA.
After introducing kata, it reveals the different kata inherent in the three major TWI TT
courses and the TWI Job Safety course. It illustrates the value stream analysis
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relationship to the kata and the kata relationship to TWI. It also demonstrates
how to use kata to solve the problems identified in your value stream analysis EE
while simultaneously conditioning your employees’ adaptive thinking patterns.

Supplying a clear understanding of exactly where the seven kata apply in your

Lean journey, the authors include helpful guidelines for coaching a kata. They

also highlight mistakes they have experienced or witnessed so you can avoid KK
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the same pitfalls. As globalism continues to make management’s organiza-
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tional skills a competitive differentiator, this book provides you with the tools
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to use the seven kata to place your organization on a discernible path toward
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Toyota Kata,
TWI, and
Lean Training
CONRAD SOLTERO
PATRICE BOUTIER
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Contents
Foreword.......................................................................................... vii
Patrick.Graupp
Foreword........................................................................................... ix
Robert.J..Wrona
Foreword.........................................................................................xiii
Jim.Huntzinger
Preface............................................................................................ xvii
Acknowledgments.........................................................................xxiii
1 Weapons.for.the.Economic.Warrior..............................................1
1.1 Skills, Not Tools ..................................................................................1
1.2 Toyota’s Connective Tissue ................................................................2
1.3 Skills of the Warrior ...........................................................................3
1.4 Training within Industry’s Japanese Connection ..............................6
1.5 Lean’s Formula: Syncretism and Ritual ..............................................7
1.6 Getting Started ..................................................................................10
1.7 A Word of Warning to Top Management ........................................12
2 Improvement.Kata:.Kaizen.........................................................13
2.1 Means to an End—Kata and Kaizen ...............................................13
2.2 Value Stream Analysis ......................................................................15
2.3 Improvement Kata Method ..............................................................18
2.3.1 Coaching the Improvement Kata ..........................................18
2.3.2 Five Questions .......................................................................19
2.4 Yokoten .............................................................................................27
2.5 Conclusions .......................................................................................28
3 Nested.Job.Instruction.Kata:.Learn.to.Teach..............................29
3.1 Training to Instruct ...........................................................................31
3.1.1 On-the-Job Training Development .......................................32
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3.1.2 Power of One-on-One ..........................................................36
3.1.3 Quintessential Standard—Demonstrated ..............................36
3.2 Nested Kata ......................................................................................37
3.2.1 Important Step (IS) Kata ........................................................37
3.2.2 Key Point (KP) Kata...............................................................40
3.2.3 Kata for How to Get Ready to Instruct .................................41
3.3 From Training Course to Kata .........................................................45
3.4 Conclusions .......................................................................................47
4 Coaching.Kata:.Teaching.to.Learn..............................................49
4.1 Introduction ......................................................................................49
4.2 Preceptor Development ....................................................................50
4.3 Coaching Philosophy ........................................................................52
4.4 Coaching ...........................................................................................55
4.5 Coaching and Improvement Kata Card Revision ............................58
4.6 Developing a Kata Culture Using a Training Timetable .................63
4.6.1 JR Connection ........................................................................66
4.6.2 Coaching the Problem-Solving Kata .....................................68
4.7 Conclusion ........................................................................................69
5 Problem-Solving.Kata:.Seek.to.Understand.Kata.......................71
5.1 Unconsciously Neglecting Problems ................................................71
5.2 PS Kata ..............................................................................................72
5.3 PS Kata Family ..................................................................................78
5.4 Training within Industry Problem-Solving Training .......................80
5.5 Six Sigma in Context ........................................................................81
5.6 Conclusions .......................................................................................82
6 Job.Relations.Kata:.The.Cultural.Fortifier..................................85
6.1 Collaboration and Conciliation ........................................................85
6.2 Practicing the JR Kata .......................................................................86
6.3 Need for Coaching ...........................................................................87
6.3.1 Coaching the JR Kata ............................................................87
6.4 Practicing the JR Kata .......................................................................88
6.4.1 Step 1 .....................................................................................91
6.4.2 Step 2 .....................................................................................92
6.4.3 Step 3 .....................................................................................92
6.4.4 Step 4 .....................................................................................93
6.4.5 Reflection ...............................................................................93
6.5 Foundations for Good Relations ......................................................94
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6.6 JR Kata and A3 Thinking .................................................................94
6.5 Conclusion ........................................................................................95
7 Job.Safety.Kata:.The.Duplex.Kata..............................................97
7.1 JS Improvement Kata ........................................................................97
7.1.1 Step 1 ...................................................................................100
7.1.2 Observations ........................................................................107
7.2 JS Problem-Solving Kata .................................................................108
7.2.1 Step 2 ...................................................................................109
7.2.2 Step 3 ...................................................................................110
7.2.3 Step 4 ...................................................................................111
7.3 JI Kata Connection .........................................................................112
7.4 A New 5-Why? ................................................................................113
7.5 Conclusions .....................................................................................115
8 Job.Methods.Kata:.Kipling’s.Kata.............................................117
8.1 Introduction ....................................................................................117
8.2 Relationship of the Improvement and JM Kata .............................118
8.3 Coaching .........................................................................................119
8.4 Proposals and the Nascent Teian Program ....................................119
8.5 JM Kata ...........................................................................................120
8.5.1 JM Analysis ..........................................................................120
8.5.2 Nemawashi and A3 Thinking .............................................125
8.5.3 Continuous Improvement ....................................................127
8.6 Conclusion ......................................................................................127
9 Submit.to.the.Kata....................................................................129
9.1 First Things First .............................................................................131
9.2 Adaptive Learning ..........................................................................133
9.3 Conclusion ......................................................................................136
Appendix:.Lean.Training.Within.Industry.(TWI).Timeline............137
References.......................................................................................149
Biographies.....................................................................................157

Foreword
Conrad Soltero and Patrice Boutier are two of the earliest and most con-
sistently diligent students, practitioners, and teachers of the TWI methods.
Through their hard work and steadfastness they have made a major contri-
bution to the resurgence of TWI in the United States. Their experience with
TWI over the past ten years clearly shows in this work—most notably in
how they are able to adroitly place TWI into the larger realm of Lean prac-
tice and what the world has learned about Lean since the TWI programs
were first developed in the 1940s.
By looking at the TWI methods, JI/JM/JR and JS, as everyday practices
that become as much a part of “who we are” than simply “what we do,”
they show the continuing power of these methods to alter ourselves and
improve our daily work. Although each of the TWI methodologies can
stand on its own, through their integrated view of these methods as kata
or human practice, Soltero and Boutier show how the methods comple-
ment each other, as well as the later Lean approaches, and provide a holis-
tic approach to frontline leadership. It is in this well-rounded approach to
skills development that we begin to perceive, as the authors clearly show, an
image of a learning organization that can tap into its true human potential.
Patrick.Graupp
TWI Institute Senior Master Trainer
Author of The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors Implementing
TWI: Creating and Managing a Skills-Based Culture and Getting to Standard
Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care
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