Talk:Autonomation

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Jidoka is strongly associated with the term Autonomation rather than the concept of Automation. Taiichi Ohno meant to associate it with the Autonomic Nervous System from the standpoint that he wanted the production floor to operate just as the human body works for an individual.

Mr. Ohno is referred to say that the autonomic nervous system is capable to respond even when a person is asleep and for this reason Jidoka was incorporated to the Toyota Production System to enable the people to react to problems in an autonomous way meaning that the operators do not have to rely on the upper management levels to make decisions such as stopping the line when a defect is detected.

This is indeed the main influence from Mr Sakichi Toyoda when he invented the automatic looms which were given the ability to run by themselves but at the same time were enabled to tell the operators when a thread was broken for them to fix minor stoppages without management intervention.

We can always associate automation with autonomation but the idea behind Jidoka is for the process and the operators to be able to detect problems in an autonomous way and fix them immediately otherwise escalate them via conventional channels or through Andon mechanisms.

Note Added by Xavier Lozano, 02 August 2006, Brownsville, Texas

Hi!

This is from the article:

"To complete Jidoka, not only is the defect corrected in the product where discovered, but the process is evaluated and changed to remove the possibility of making the same mistake again. This "mistake-proofing" of the production line is called Poka-Yoke."

It is stated here that the changing of the method is always Poke-Yoke. Do anyone agree with me, when I am saying that Poka-Yoke is not the change of a method to make it error-proof, but the device checking the product from being faulty, hence introducing Poka-Yoke is one possible solution to a poor process, but not the only one.

Can I change the article accordingly?

Best regards, Birdie Nam Nam (talk) 10:54, 28 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Since noone is responding, I made the change. Best regards, Birdie Nam Nam (talk) 09:49, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply