Hiroyuki Hirano quotes

“A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's.”
-- Hiroyuki Hirano

#Fall Quotes #Engineering Quotes #Workplace Quotes

“Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.”
-- Hiroyuki Hirano

Source : Hiroyuki Hirano (2016). “JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 2 -- Waste and the 5S's”, p.205, CRC Press

#Assumption Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival.”
-- Hiroyuki Hirano

Source : Hiroyuki Hirano (2009). “JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 1 -- The Just-In-Time Production System”, p.14, CRC Press

#Book Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Survival Quotes

“If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation

“I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.”

“Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.”

“I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.”

“Engineering is too important to wait for science.”

“Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.”

“Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.”

“Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.”

“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”

“Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.”