Genchi Katō
Genchi may refer to: *Genchi Genbutsu, the key principle of the Toyota Production System *Jean Genchi Jean Genchi née Jean Guppy (born 25 September 1956) is a former British rower who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Rowing career Genchi started rowing in 1973 with the Stuart Ladies Rowing Club and as part of the junior fours the club wo ...

Genchi Genbutsu
literally translates "real location, real thing”(meaning "the situation onsite") and it is a key principle of the Toyota Production System. The principle is sometimes referred to as "go and see." It suggests that in order to truly understand a situation one needs to observe what is happening at the site where work actually takes place: the ''gemba'' (現場). One definition is that it is "collecting facts and data at the actual site of the work or problem." Application Taiichi Ohno, creator of the Toyota Production System is credited, perhaps apocryphally, with taking new graduates to the shopfloor and drawing a chalk circle on the floor. The graduate would be told to stand in the circle, observe and note what he saw. When Ohno returned he would check; if the graduate had not seen enough he would be asked to keep observing. Ohno was trying to imprint upon his future engineers that the only way to truly understand what happens on the shop floor was to go there. It was where the ...
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