Editing Toyota Production System (section)

==Sharing==
Toyota originally began sharing TPS with its parts suppliers in the 1990s. Because of interest in the program from other organizations, Toyota began offering instruction in the methodology to others. Toyota has even "donated" its system to charities, providing its engineering staff and techniques to non-profits in an effort to increase their efficiency and thus ability to serve people. For example, Toyota assisted the [[Food Bank For New York City]] to significantly decrease waiting times at soup kitchens, packing times at a food distribution center, and waiting times in a food pantry.<ref name=nyt2013>{{cite news|last=El-Naggar|first=Mona|title=In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money-toyota-donates-efficiency-to-new-york-charity.html?_r=0|access-date=1 September 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 July 2013|archive-date=1 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801065150/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money-toyota-donates-efficiency-to-new-york-charity.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> Toyota announced on June 29, 2011 the launch of a national program to donate its Toyota Production System expertise towards nonprofit organizations with goal of improving their operations, extending their reach, and increasing their impact.<ref name=tps>{{cite press release|date= June 29, 2011|title= Toyota Launches National Program to Expand Efforts to Help Schools, Hospitals and Community Organizations Make the Most of Every Dollar|url= https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/toyota-launches-national-program-to-expand-efforts-to-help-schools-hospitals-and-community-organizations-make-the-most-of-every-dollar-124700543.html|location= Chicago, Illinois|publisher= PR Newswire|agency= PR Newswire US|access-date= November 1, 2017|archive-date= December 15, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181215122632/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/toyota-launches-national-program-to-expand-efforts-to-help-schools-hospitals-and-community-organizations-make-the-most-of-every-dollar-124700543.html|url-status= live}}</ref> By September, less than three months later, [[SBP (nonprofit organization)|SBP]], a disaster relief organization based out of New Orleans, reported that their home rebuilds had been reduced from 12 to 18 weeks, to 6 weeks.<ref name="toyota">{{cite press release|author1=Toyota|title=Toyota Helps to Speed Post-Katrina Homebuilding, Reports Major New Orleans Nonprofit|journal=Business Wire|date=September 21, 2011}}</ref> Additionally, employing Toyota methods (like ''[[kaizen]]''<ref name="boss">{{cite journal|last1=BOSS|first1=SUZIE|title=Engineering Higher Efficiency|journal=Stanford Social Innovation Review|date=Winter 2012|volume=10|issue=1|pages=56–57|url=https://ssir.org/articles/entry/engineering_higher_efficiency|access-date=November 3, 2017|archive-date=November 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107012636/https://ssir.org/articles/entry/engineering_higher_efficiency|url-status=live}}</ref>) had reduced construction errors by 50 percent.<ref name="toyota"/> The company included SBP among its first 20 community organizations, along with [[AmeriCorps]].<ref name=tps/>