If you clicked on my intentionally attention grabbing headline (or what might be a parody of those)… no, Toyota isn’t killing their famed and much-copied Andon process. Toyota is just changing the mechanics of the Andon system – or perhaps improving it… in the spirit of Kaizen, or continuous improvement. If you’d like more background on Andon cords and that process, see a blog post (and a video) I about my trip to Toyota and Japan (and … Continue reading Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories