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How Toyota Changed the Way We Make Things
I am I the only one who thought of the Ron Howard film "Gung Ho"? Lol
Excellent stuff, in engineering school “ the toyota way” and “the goal” where required reading and as well as other itinerationsof continuos improvement. The actual toyota system fell a little out of favor between 2009 and 2012 after the infamous sticky pedals incidents that harmed toyota’s reputation. The principals are solid and used in every good plant, but are not necessarily named after toyota.
For those interested in the subject, have a look at The Machine That Changed the World by Daniel Roos and James P. Womack. They were the ones that brought the Lean Manufacturing systems of the Japenese car manufacturers to light in the 1980's to the Western world. They had lead an international study based in MIT over several years on the subject which lead to their writing of this book.