Operations Management: Toyota Production System and Boeing Strategies

Operation Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART A ..........................................................................................................................................1
Identification of wastage by hospital management in their health facility.................................1
Manner in which approaches helps hospital management in embracing for addressing these
wastages by utilising the way of Toyota ....................................................................................2
Similarities between the hospital and cars that made management adopt Toyota way in
improvement...............................................................................................................................3
Lean methodology and its certain principles and its impact upon performance ........................4
PART B............................................................................................................................................5
Boeing strategy in selecting location and layout ........................................................................5
Inventory Management...............................................................................................................6
Strategy of a company for overcoming manufacturing delays...................................................7
Strategies adopted by Boeing to implement cut cycle times ......................................................7
PART C............................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Operations management is determined as an administration of business practices for the
purpose of creating high efficiency level which is possible within a business enterprise. It is also
concerned with conversion of labour and materials into the services and goods which is as
efficient as possible towards maximisation of profits in an organisation. This project report is
divided into three parts, first is a case study upon reduction of wastage at hospital industry by
using Toyota Production System and there certain questions related to this (Andersen, 2019).
The second part is based upon second case study which is based upon The Boeing Company, that
is, among the two major producers of aircraft in global market and there are certain questions
which are related to it. In the third part, it has been covered the differences between concept of
Ford’s assembly line and modern customization in operations management and it has been
identified that what is the most suitable between them.
PART A
Introduction: This case study is based upon identification of better ways in which a hospitality
industry can improve quality and provide better safety for patients. It focuses upon different
innovative ideas that can be brought up in hospitals to ensure that customer achieve high amount
of satisfaction. In this case study, there is a development of new production system, named
Toyota Production System which is also known as a lean manufacturing. This has been
developed by Taiichi Ohno who is a Japanese businessman. This is developed for the purpose of
eliminating the wastage and defects in production.
Identification of wastage by hospital management in their health facility
As per the production system, there are around seven wastes that can be seen in health
facilities of hospitality management. These wastages have negative impact upon overall
production and availability of health facilities within a hospitality organisation. The primary
waste among all these seven wastages are wastage of time, such as the patients wait for doctors
for checking up (Ateş, 2019). Other is when patients way for nay kind of their test reports for
coming back. Other wastes includes inventory wastes which includes having more information
and material more than necessary and which is irrelevant. It also includes the over cost of
production or producing extra. This means that sometimes production department produces more
than necessary which increases the unnecessary cost of production. For instance, pamphlets,
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brochures and stockpiling in the closets storage and they also take up space. There is also a
wastes cost for making many pamphlets which are not even required.
Some of the other wastage also includes chemical wastage in which reagents and solvents
are utilised for the preparations of laboratory, sterilants, heavy metals, and disinfectants in
medical devices (Atkin, Hoogeveen and Stolletz, 2019). In this examples can be taken of
mercury in the broken thermometers. It can be seen that the waste which is generated out of
hospital is not the solo responsibility of administration of hospital but also of each department
and each healthcare that helps in providing hospital personnel. It is also determined as a
procedure which have to begin at generation sites where the wastes related to medical must
appropriately collected from other waste which is non-hazardous. The transportation such
healthcare have to be well mapper in hospital and it is conveyed by specific carts. It should be
carried out in the utility rooms which is specially prepared for such purpose. There are various
ways such as on-site and off-site which are available for final treatment healthcare wastage. The
workforce which is handling such kind of wastage have to be trained thoroughly.
Manner in which approaches helps hospital management in embracing for addressing these
wastages by utilising the way of Toyota
The production system of Toyota system is elaborated as a human centred procedures to
improve the business performance which helps the enterprise for minimisation of errors and
wastages while optimising its quality and performance. This helps to completely eliminating
wastage. Although, there are many consideration for this synonymous with the lean
manufacturing system or just in time process, this is not (Chapman and Ellinger, 2019). Toyota is
recognised as a complete management system which held its focus upon people and also upon
improvement in the way they look. It is a uniquely systematic transformation which is at all
levels of healthcare enterprises.
There are various wastes in hospitals and health care services. Toyota helps in addressing
these wastes by paying attention upon procedures and people in place of technologies and tools.
This system also offers healthcare to its staff and provides them flexibility which they require to
respond for daily challenges which helps in emerging because of conditions of patients, market
conditions, and many more. There are many qualitative solutions which are essentially required
for executive directives and in driving the healthcare organisation. This will help in
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