Planning Production for Toyota North America

Order Description Making a Critical Assessment of the Toyota Production System (TPS) Today a. Demonstrate your team’s basic understanding of the TPS by 1) defining in your team’s own words any eight of the terms found athttp://www.toyotageorgetown.com/terms.asp, and 2) applying them to one or more of your team’s own companies or other organizations. a. List the factors your team considers key to the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC): The Lexus RX 330 Line North American plant location decision, identifying these factors as either exogenous or endogenous, weighting them using your team’s best judgment (stating any relevant assumptions or constraints), and assigning two scores to each factor: one for production of the Lexus RX 330 at TMMC, and one for production at a Toyota factory in the USA. b. Using the scores from your team’s weighted scoring model and working with regard to Ringo Sho and Nemawashi, make and support your recommendation for the RX 330 North American plant location – TMMC or a factory in the USA. Exercise 3: Determining Production Capacity Needed at Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Canada (TMMC) Decision trees are another important if challenging world-class operations management method which operations managers should understand and with which other managers should be familiar. This exercise illustrates how using a decision tree, determination of an “optimal” production capacity option can be made from among several possible capacity options