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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of Toyota Production System - the shows and 28 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

The Toyota Production System fundamentals show up across industries - from a hospital pharmacy slashing medication errors 75 percent to a factory cutting lead times 70 percent through cellular manufacturing. These episodes explore the prerequisites that actually make lean work: psychological safety and leadership models that enable frontline decision-making, plus how companies like Rothy's use systems thinking to design manufacturing from first principles. Speakers including Jeff Liker and Eric Ries reflect on which TPS ideas persist after decades of iteration.

Best shows on Toyota Production System

Best episodes on Toyota Production System

  1. The Toyota Method That Could Transform Dentistry. Why AI Multiplies Mess Without It

    The TechDental Podcast · 2026-07-07

    95 / 100

    Virginia Mason Medical center in the US redesigned entire clinical pathways using the Toyota production system.

  2. What Private Equity Looks For Before They Buy with Wayne Marhelski (#79)

    Exit Algorithms · 2026-06-26

    91 / 100

    again, you know, taking those principles like from the Toyota production system and and implementing them.

  3. Fixing the Way Work Really Gets Done: Dynamic Work Design

    Executive Edge Podcast · 2026-01-27

    86 / 100

    So you were there when Harley introduced the Toyota production system?

  4. E190 - Lessons from Glenn Bostock: Reimagining Business Success

    Surviving the Side Hustle · 2026-05-29

    83 / 100

    Glenn shared something mentor told him: a Japanese manufacturing consultant Ritsoyu Shingo, the son a who developed Toyota production system.

  5. Do the Right Thing, Every Time: Lessons on Leadership and Agency

    Take Command: A Leadership Podcast · 2026-06-09

    82 / 100

    I don't feel bad because Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing people have been dealing with it for almost 100 years now, which is that in order to enable speed, we have to have immutable long-term commitments.

  6. From Action Plans to Experiments

    The Lean Solutions Podcast · 2026-05-26

    81 / 100
  7. What Big Companies Do To Ensure Profitability with Ravinder Nottra [CPD Available]

    Dentists Who Invest Podcast · 2026-06-04

    80 / 100

    So this was known as the product Toyota production system.

  8. Episode 123: Deming, DevOps History, AI Risk, and Critical Thinking, with John Willis

    Software Defined Interviews · 2026-06-06

    77 / 100

    he did originally a paper on Toyota, the DNA of it was it was one of the most downloaded horror business review review papers ever written ⁓ on the DNA of Toyota production systems or production Toyota systems DNA I forget which order it was in.

  9. Human Business Leadership: Glenn Bostock on Turning Culture Into Growth | Ep. 209

    Business Superfans® Advantage · 2026-05-08

    77 / 100
  10. Jeff Liker, Twenty Years Later: The Ideas That Keep Showing Up

    Lean Blog Interviews · 2026-05-27

    75 / 100

    I would say the number that have deeply implemented the Toyota production system as a system in their plants is probably below 2%.

  11. Defects & Overprocessing | Flow vs Friction Ch. 1

    Savage Simplicity · 2026-02-18

    75 / 100
  12. Inverted Podcast #22: Become Incorruptible with Eric Ries

    The Inverted Podcast · 2026-05-26

    74 / 100

    Okay, so why is it called Lean Startup? What's the lean? Where does the lean come from? Lean is actually an homage to Lean manufacturing, Toyota production system.

  13. How one factory cut lead times by 70 percent with Cellular Manufacturing

    The Operations Podcast with Fexingo · 2026-06-26

    71 / 100

    Luna: That sounds like a version of the Toyota Production System's 'andon cord' philosophy - stop the line when there's a problem.

  14. The First 90 Days of Lean: What Actually Matters (Part 1)

    The Lean Solutions Podcast · 2026-06-16

    70 / 100

    Well, Shane, today we're gonna, we're going to launch into a conversation about our first 90 days after learning about this thing called Lean, continuous improvement, the Toyota Production System.

  15. Preconditions for Lean: Psychological Safety and Model 1 vs Model 2 Leadership with Thomas Cox and Andre DeMerchant

    Lean Blog Interviews · 2026-06-24

    69 / 100

    And um, at one key point I started thinking about how do I use the Toyota production system as I understood it from the outside and use it to inform how managers manage and how Leaders lead.

  16. How One Hospital Pharmacy Cut Medication Errors by 75 Percent

    The Operations Podcast with Fexingo · 2026-06-27

    69 / 100

    Luna: So it's a continuous improvement loop, like a Toyota production system.

  17. Why Rothy's Built the Factory Before They Built the Shoe

    Ecommerce on Tap by Sourcify and Izba Consulting · 2026-06-23

    69 / 100

    Uh, the Toyota production system is something that any supply chain person has been taught about.

  18. Agile Leadership and the Flow System with Nigel Thurlow

    Mind Your Leadership · 2024-12-09

    69 / 100

    I mean I learned a lot with Toyota of course from lean thinking, the Toyota production system, customer first, respect for people, these types of key tenants.

  19. E55: Go Back to the Basics: Reliability Lessons From Fresenius

    Reliability 4.0 · 2026-06-16

    67 / 100

    So I learned this two times ago, about 25 years ago, in a company in Mexico named Alcoa, and they're based on Toyota production system.

  20. Managing Large-Scale Manufacturing with Tanushree Ghosh

    Manufacturing Talk Radio · 2026-06-16

    62 / 100

    I cannot talk about what happens inside Medtronic, but let's say Toyota production system, that is well known.

  21. Lean Six Sigma: Beyond the Belts

    Ever-So-Lean Podcast · 2025-12-29

    62 / 100

    You know, it is, it is ironic that, and I suppose back when it was in its, in its infancy, you know, and it was within the control of the Toyota production system, I'm sure they had standardization, I'm sure they knew exactly what it meant and everybody had a very clear understanding.

  22. The Capability Frontier: How Organizations Navigate Talent Mobility to Drive Economic Complexity, by Jonathan H. Westover PhD

    Leadership Reads: Articles on the Go · 2025-10-11

    55 / 100

    The company's renowned Toyota production system includes structured knowledge management processes that transform individual expertise into organizational capabilities.

  23. The Hyper Adaptive Enterprise

    You in 2042 ... The Future of Work · 2026-05-15

    51 / 100

    And uh, so my background, I like to state the genesis of the book we're going to talk started on a factory floor in Tokyo when I was studying the Toyota production system.

  24. Career Lessons for Emerging Leaders

    Healthcare Executive Podcast · 2026-06-18

    46 / 100

    to more of the culture of the organization, my beliefs uh, began to strongly align with those of uh, what I mentioned before, the lean management philosophies that were really made famous by the Toyota production system.

  25. Waiting & Non-Utilized Talent | Flow vs Friction Ch. 3

    Savage Simplicity · 2026-03-15

    44 / 100

    But before we do that, um, one interesting detail about this pair is that non utilized talent was, was actually not part of the original seven wastes that Toyota Production System identified back in the 1950s.

  26. How Toyota's Andon Cord Transformed Factory Quality

    The Operations Podcast with Fexingo · 2026-07-08

  27. How Toyota Reinvented Manufacturing with the Toyota Production System

    The CEO Diary with Fexingo · 2026-07-23

  28. How Toyota Reinvented Manufacturing with the Toyota Production System

    The CEO Diary with Fexingo · 2026-07-20