- 1930's Toyota struggled. Japanese market too small, and demand too fragmented.
- 1950s Eiji Toyoda goes on a 12-week study tour of US plants to study the Ford motor system.
- After return Toyoda assigns Ohno the task of focus on improving Toyota's production.
- Realized they need to adopt mass producing mechanism.
- Ohno
- Benchmarked the competition
- Further tours to US
- Studied Ford's book (Today & Tomorrow) - Ford's Moving Assembly Line.
- Pull System -
- In any well-run supermarket, individual items are replenished as each item begins to run low on the shelf. Material replenishment is initiated by consumption.
- Implemented Kanban to signal to the prev step when its parts needed to be replenished (with the help of visual cards). Thus the concept of JIT was evolved.
- Implemented Jidoka
- Implemented Kaizen (based on Deming's PDCA cycle)
Scraps from various sources and my own writings on Digital, Artificial Intelligence, Disruption, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile, XP, TDD, FDD, DevOps, Design Thinking, etc.
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