autonomation

A machine performing the same defect detection process is engaged in autonomation.

However, ninety percent of the benefits of full automation can be gained by autonomation.

Toyota evolved a unique manufacturing system centered on two complementary notions: just in time and autonomation.

Compare to Japanese term 'autonomation' (which can be loosely translated as "automation with a human touch").

Autonomation, therefore can be said to be a key element in successful Lean Manufacturing implementations.

Autonomation is called by Shigeo Shingo pre-automation.

The purpose of autonomation is that it makes possible the rapid or immediate address, identification and correction of mistakes that occur in a process.

Jidoka (自働化) (English: Autonomation - automation with human intelligence)

Autonomation prevents the production of defective products, eliminates overproduction and focuses attention on understanding the problem and ensuring that it never recurs.

Other innovations, such as autonomation, appear to have been discovered independently by Sakichi Toyoda and Frank Woollard.

The other of the two TPS pillars is the very human aspect of autonomation, whereby automation is achieved with a human touch.

Also known as the flexible mass production, the TPS has two pillar concepts: Just-in-time (JIT) or "flow", and "autonomation" (smart automation).

Autonomation relieves the worker of the need to continuously judge whether the operation of the machine is normal; their efforts are now only engaged when there is a problem alerted by the machine.

For instance rather than waiting until the end of a production line to inspect a finished product, autonomation may be employed at early steps in the process to reduce the amount of work that is added to a defective product.

These principles include: Pull processing, Perfect first-time quality, Waste minimization, Continuous improvement, Flexibility, Building and maintaining a long term relationship with suppliers, Autonomation, Load leveling and Production flow and Visual control.

Toyota's development of ideas that later became Lean may have started at the turn of the 20th century with Sakichi Toyoda, in a textile factory with looms that stopped themselves when a thread broke, this became the seed of autonomation and Jidoka.