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Encyclopedia > Shigeo Shingo

Shigeo Shingo (新郷 重雄 Shingō Shigeo?, 1909-1990), born in Saga City, Japan, was a Japanese industrial engineer who distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading experts on manufacturing practices and The Toyota Production System. Shingo is known far more in the West than in Japan, as a result of his meeting Norman Bodek, an American entrepreneur and founder of Productivity Inc in the USA. In 1981 Bodek had travelled to Japan to learn about the Toyota Production System, and came across books by Shingo, who as an external consultant had been teaching Industrial Engineering courses at Toyota since 1955. Shingo had written his Study of The Toyota Production System in Japanese and had it translated, very poorly, into English in 1980. Norman Bodek took as many copies of this book as he could to the USA and arranged to translate Shingo's other books into English, eventually having his original study re-translated. Bodek also brought Shingo to lecture in the USA and developed one of the first Western lean manufacturing consultancy practices with Shingo's support. 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... , Saga (佐賀市;; -shi) is the capital of Saga Prefecture, located on the island of Kyushu, Japan. ... This is a list of industrial and systems engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering or systems engineering. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The myth prevails that Shingo invented the Toyota Production System but he did document the system and added two words to the Japanese and English languages—Poka-yoke (mistake-proofing, not 'fool-proofing', which Shingo rejected as a term) and single-minute exchange of dies (SMED). In 1988, Utah State University recognized Dr. Shingo for his lifetime accomplishments and created the Shingo Prize that recognizes world-class, lean organizations. The Toyota Production System (TPS) (トヨタ生産方式) is the philosophy which organizes manufacturing and logistics at Toyota, including the interaction with suppliers and customers. ... Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ - pronounced POH-kah YOH-keh means fail-safing or mistake-proofing — avoiding (yokeru) inadvertent errors (poka)) is a behavior-shaping constraint, or a method of preventing errors by putting limits on how an operation can be performed in order to force the correct completion of the operation. ... Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) is one of the many lean production methods for reducing waste in a manufacturing process. ... Utah State Universitys main campus is located in Logan, Utah. ... The Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing is awarded annually to by Utah State University to North American companies that achieve world-class manufacturing status. ...


Shingo is the author of numerous books including: A Study of the Toyota Production System; Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System; Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-yoke System; The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies for Plant Improvement; Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement; and The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions. Process (lat. ...

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Education

Saga Technical High School (佐賀県立佐賀工業高等学校), also known as Saga Kogyo, is a technical college located in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan. ...

References

  • Shigeo Shingo: "A Revolution in Manufacturing : The Smed System", Productivity Press, 1985 (English), ISBN 0-915299-03-8
  • Shigeo Shingo: "A Study of the Toyota Production System", Productivity Press, 1981 (Japanese), 1989 (English), ISBN 0-915299-17-8.
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement : The Shingo System", Productivity Press, 1990 (English), ISBN 0-915299-64-X
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Quick Changeover for Operators : The SMED System", Productivity Press, 1996 (English), ISBN 1-56327-125-7
  • Shigeo Shingo: "The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo : Key Strategies for Plant Improvement", Productivity Press, 1987 (English), ISBN 0-915299-15-1
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Zero Quality Control : Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System", Productivity Press, 1986 (English), ISBN 0-915299-07-0
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Non-Stock Production : The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement", Productivity Press, 1988 (English), ISBN 0-915299-30-5
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Mistake-Proofing for Operators : The ZQC System", Productivity Press, 1997 (English), ISBN 1-56327-127-3
  • Shigeo Shingo: "The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions (Manufacturing & Production)", Productivity Press, 1992 (English), ISBN 0-915299-52-6
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Enfoques Modernos Para la Mejora En la Fabricacion : El Sistema Shingo", Productivity Press, 1992 (Spanish), ISBN 84-87022-77-4
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Produccion Sin Stocks : El Sistema Shingo Para la Mejora Continua", Productivity Press, 1991 (Spanish), ISBN 84-87022-74-X
  • Shigeo Shingo: "Das Erfolgsgeheimnis der Toyota-Produktion", Verlag moderne industrie, 1992 (German), ISBN 3-478-91062-5

Secondary literature

  • Head, Simon : The New Ruthless Economy. Work and Power in the Digital Age, Oxford UP 2005 - Head analyzes critically Shingo and the Toyota production system, ISBN 0195179838

See also

Taylorism or Scientific management is the name of the approach to management and Industrial/Organizational Psychology initiated by Frederick Winslow Taylor in his 1911 monograph The Principles of Scientific Management. ...

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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Shigeo Shingo (882 words)
Shigeo Shingo (1909-1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer who was one of the lesser-known but still highly regarded people to work with quality systems, compared to W. Shingo co-invented or taught him all this somehow is simply erroneous and lacks any factual perspective regarding the actual sequence of events from the period.
Shingo vividly described in his SMED book was actually in historical hindsight on one of the last machines in the company to be converted to single minute changeover performance.
Shigeo Shingo was born in 1909 at Saga City, Japan where he attended the Saga Technical High School.
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