Jidoka: Human Automation
Amin Ghali · Productivity Press eBooks · 2009
There are many ways to make the same product. Sometimes all it takes is a very simple tool to process the workpiece. Other times, workers are using both hands to hold some- thing in place during processing when a simple jig could do the trick just as well. Sometimes we can let the machine do part of the work and sometimes we can let the machine do all of it. In other words, there are many ways-various operational methods and flow methods-we can use to make similar products.