In this instance the paint shop was able to react immediately to alerts generated by subsequent processes instead of waiting for a production report from the previous day. In addition to other Andon reporting streams, it was estimated that annual cost savings could be in the region of over half a million dollars. This whole new wider approach also addresses Toyota's Muda philosophy, which tackles futility, uselessness and wastefulness." "The Rockwell Automation engineers are easy to work with," Moore concludes, "and the mutual respect means that both sides are willing to listen to each other. Alan Williams (a senior engineer at Rockwell Automation UK) has been involved with Toyota for almost 20 years; we have known each other for a while and trust each other's opinion. We are looking to expand the system into other areas and factories and then potentially into other countries such as France, with any improvements and lessons learnt from these projects being rolled back to us."