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Quality Improvement at VMMCByPresenterstyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibility Senior Operations ManagerDesignation of IntervieweeINTRODUCTIONVirginia Mason Medical CenterORGANIZATIONQuality Improvement InitiativesTOPIC style.visibilityppt_xppt_ystyle.visibilityppt_xppt_y Toyota Production SystemIn Virginia Mason Medical CenterTo Improve the quality of VMMC, it was decided to adapt the TPS. The Top Management visited Toyota Factory in Japan to understand the successful quality techniques.Quality Improvement Initiatives style.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilityppt_xppt_y Literature ReviewAndon Cord3PJust In TimeValue Stream Mapping5SToyota Production Systemstyle.visibilityppt_xppt_ystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilityppt_xppt_ystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilityppt_xppt_ystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilityppt_xppt_ystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilitystyle.visibilityppt_xppt_ystyle.visibilitystyle.visibility Toyota Production System1. Andon CordWorkers activated Andon Cord upon discovery of a problem on the assembly line. Worker tries to solve the problem.If the worker could not fix the problem within the production cycle time, the entire assembly line halted and a senior supervisor joined the problem solvingTPS sent the problem up the hierarchy until someone solved it and the line could begin again. 2. KaizenKaizen means continuous incremental improvement. Toyota’s belief was that progress derived from small incremental improvements.It encouraged continuous improvement of its TPS processes through “good thinking” and a commitment to learning. Academics who studied TPS found that Toyota “explicitly teaches people how to improve” through coaching and internal training programs.It taught employees how to get to the root of a problem.In Toyota employees generated an average of 999,000 ideas for improvement annually—90% of which were implemented.