@article{Nortje_Snaddon_2013, title={The Toyota Production System}, volume={24}, url={http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/648}, DOI={10.7166/24-1-648}, abstractNote={<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The Toyota Production System (TPS) has been cited as being the pinnacle of continuous improvement approaches in manufacturing organisations, and many models of the TPS are well known. However, some authors question the effectiveness of established approaches, and propose Bateson}, number={1}, journal={The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering}, author={Nortje, FD and Snaddon, DR}, year={2013}, month={May}, pages={68–80} }