Just in time

Kiichiro Toyoda tours American car plants, takes a Chevrolet apart on a loom-factory bench, builds his own steel mill, and watches his first truck break down on the way to its own debut. Then he builds a factory around two English words: just in time. Along the way we test the legends against the records, including why Toyoda became Toyota. Sources Toyota Motor, 75 Years of Toyota, including The Origins of Just-in-Time Toyota Motor, トヨタ自動車75年史 (Japanese), for Kiichiro's 1938 interview in Motor and Jiro Iwaoka's 1966 recollections Eiji Toyoda's 1985 memoir in the Nikkei, translated by Art Smalley: Eiji Toyoda on the Roots of TPS Kanagawa Prefectural Library, Kiichiro Toyoda profile (Japanese) Takahiro Fujimoto, The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota (Oxford University Press, 1999) From Kaizumi Lean comes from Toyota, so most lean training is built around a car plant. Show it to people in a warehouse, a hospital or a job shop, and you often hear the same thing: "We're not a car plant." Kaizumi solves that. It uses AI to build lean training set in your own workplace, adapted to your company and to any department in it, from procurement to production to quality. Each course is a 15 to 20 minute video, in more than 50 languages. Start a free trial and build up to three modules, no credit card needed. Or try more than 30 free lean tools, like a yamazumi chart and a takt time calculator.