TPS Works Online Inventorynote

Research inventory of TPS-related works available online, compiled March 2026. Organized by category with availability notes.

1. Ohno's Books

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production (1978/1988)

Workplace Management (1982/2012)

2. Shingo's Books

A Study of the Toyota Production System (1981/1989)

Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System (1986)

A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System (1985)

3. Major Western Codifications

The Machine That Changed the World — Womack/Jones/Roos (1990)

Lean Thinking — Womack/Jones (1996)

The Toyota Way — Liker (2004)

The Toyota Way Fieldbook — Liker/Meier (2005)

4. Key Secondary Sources

Toyota Kata — Rother (2009)

Learning to See — Rother/Shook (1999)

The Birth of Lean — Shimokawa/Fujimoto (2009)

5. Ohno Interviews and Primary Sources

1984 Ohno Oral History (Shimokawa/Fujimoto, 3 hours)

Ohno Lecture Video (1984)

6. Toyota Official Resources

Toyota Global — TPS Pages

1973 TPS Handbook (Internal Training Manual)

TPS Basic Handbook (Art of Lean, 2000)

7. Practitioner Speeches and Articles

Teruyuki Minoura — "The Thinking Production System" (2003)

Fujio Cho — Toyota Way 2001 Interview

Fujio Cho — Legacy Lecture Notes

Robert W. Hall — "Lean and the Toyota Production System"

8. Key Articles and Academic Papers (Free)

Spear/Bowen — "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System" (HBR, 1999)

Spear — "Learning to Lead at Toyota" (HBR, 2004)

Goldratt — "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"

Sugimori, Kusunoki, Cho, Uchikawa — "Toyota Production System and Kanban System" (1977)

Art of Lean — "Eight Questions of TPS"

MIT TPS Lecture Notes (T. Gutowski)

8b. Additional Books on Archive.org

Harada — "Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno" (2015)

Monden — "Toyota Production System: Practical Approach" (1983)

Monden — "Toyota Production System: Integrated Approach to JIT" (1998)

JMA — "Kanban Just-in-Time at Toyota" (1986)

Imai — "Gemba Kaizen" (1997)

Imai — "Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success"

Liker — "Toyota Culture" (2008)

LEI — "The Birth of Lean" chapter excerpts

9. Japanese Academic Sources

熊澤光正 — "トヨタ生産方式：大野耐一の記録(1)" (2007)

伊藤賢次 — "トヨタ生産方式（「TPS」）の評価に関する一考察"

Ohno — "How the Toyota Production System was Created" (1982)

Shook — "How to Change a Culture: Lessons from NUMMI" (2010)

Holweg — "The Genealogy of Lean Production" (2007)

Shingo — "A Study of the Toyota Production System" full PDF

Additional Archive.org books not yet in KB

9. Video Sources

Ohno Interview Footage

Ohno Lecture Video Analysis (2023)

10. Video Sources

Ohno TV Interview (~1988)

Nampachi Hayashi — "TPS and The Roots of Lean" (2018)

Bloomberg — "How Toyota Changed The Way We Make Things" (2018)

Toyota Global Virtual Plant Tour

11. Ohno's Lesser-Known Writings

Ohno/Mito — "Just-in-Time for Today and Tomorrow" (1986/1988)

"Ohno's 10 Commandments" (大野耐一の鬼十訓)

President Online — "Why Ohno said you don't need to read TPS books"

12. Shingo Prize Resources

Summary of Availability

| Work | Full Text Free | Archive.org | Preview/Partial | |------|---------------|-------------|-----------------| | Ohno — TPS (1978) | Yes (almendron) | Borrowable | — | | Ohno — Workplace Mgmt (1982) | — | Borrowable | — | | Shingo — Study of TPS (1981) | — | — | Preview only | | Shingo — Zero QC (1986) | — | — | Related only | | Shingo — SMED (1985) | — | Borrowable | — | | Womack et al — Machine (1990) | — | Borrowable | MIT summary | | Womack/Jones — Lean Thinking (1996) | — | Borrowable | MIT review | | Liker — Toyota Way (2004) | — | Borrowable | Summary PDF | | Liker/Meier — Fieldbook (2005) | — | Borrowable | — | | Rother — Toyota Kata (2009) | — | Borrowable | lean.org summary | | Rother/Shook — Learning to See (1999) | Yes (educational) | — | — | | Shimokawa/Fujimoto — Birth of Lean (2009) | — | — | — | | 1973 TPS Handbook | Yes (paulakers.net) | — | — | | Ohno 1984 Interview | Excerpts only | — | Japanese scan | | Minoura speech (2003) | Yes | — | — | | Cho — Toyota Way 2001 | Yes | — | — | | Cho — Legacy Lecture | Yes | — | — | | Toyota Global TPS pages | Yes | — | — | | Spear/Bowen — DNA of TPS (1999) | Yes | — | — | | Spear — Learning to Lead (2004) | Yes | — | — | | Goldratt — Shoulders of Giants | Yes | — | — | | Sugimori et al. — TPS/Kanban (1977) | — | — | Paywalled | | Harada — Lessons from Ohno (2015) | — | Borrowable | — | | Monden — TPS (1983/1998) | — | Borrowable | — | | JMA — Kanban JIT at Toyota (1986) | — | Borrowable | — | | Imai — Gemba Kaizen (1997) | — | Borrowable | — | | Liker — Toyota Culture (2008) | — | Borrowable | — | | Birth of Lean excerpts | Yes (LEI) | — | — |