Manufacturing is one of the important activity for wealth generation. Countries like China, Thailand, Vietnam etc are creating an enabling environment for developing these nations as major industrial ones. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in manufacturing activities. Toyota car company at Japan is a very interesting case study to learn many things to make manufacturing competitive. Toyota consistently raises the bar for manufacturing, product development, and process excellence. The result is an amazing business success story: steadily taking market share from price cutting competitors, earning far more profit than any other automaker, and winning the praise of business leaders worldwide.The proposed course will discuss various aspects of Toyota’s approach and will also focus to achieve sustainability through excellence in operationsINTENDED AUDIENCE: (1) Industry people who wants to use “operations” for competitive advantage. (2) Students doing research in operations management. (3) Students doing Masters and Bachelors degrees in area of operations management, industrial engineering etc. (4) Professionals who are interested in knowing the best practices in operations. PREREQUISITES: Production and Operations Management INDUSTRY SUPPORT: This course will be highly useful for manufacturing organizations. Particularly companies such as Hero, Maruti, BHEL, Rockman, Bajaj, Tata etc. will find this course valuable