The Feasibility of Applying Toyota Production System to the Small and Medium-Size Enterprises

• Main Authors: Yao-Ching Huang, 黃耀慶
• Other Authors: 顧瑞祥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bupaxf

碩士 === 國立虎尾科技大學 === 工業工程與管理研究所 === 98 === Small and Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs) mean an important subject for local economic development. Recently, with the threat of enterprise globalizing and low labor cost from mainland China, business climate makes local SMEs have to face harsh challenges. To ease the hardship of production models1, it is required to establish flexible production systems with high productivity and quality thoroughly. As such, it is just available to survive from the environment with violent competitions. Limited by deficient resources available for SMEs, when Toyota Production System (TPS) is introduced, compared with large enterprises, SMEs actually face more obstacles. To implement TPS smoothly, in this research, expert questionnaires are conducted to explore the mutual influence relationships caused by various production factors by means of Interpretive Structural Model (ISM). Also, it is also combined with Analytic Network Process (ANP) to implement weighting analysis of key factor priorities for TPS. Research results show some factors like employee intention and coherence (18.34%), support from high management ranks (15.78%), overall quality control (12.07%), quality control circles (9.68%), 5S activities (7.06%), 6 Sigma (5.27%), autonomous management structure(3.9%), JIT procurement(3.14%), lifetime employment system(3.1%) and seniority pay system (2.92%) occupy 80% roughly. The reference is available for SMEs to implement TPS focusing on key point planning. It is expected enterprise competence can be improved dramatically.