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Loom to Line
by Kaizumi Productions
Loom to Line is the story of how the Toyota Production System came to be, from a hand loom in a Japanese farming village to the factories that changed how the world works.Host Matt Savas spent a little over ten years at the Lean Enterprise Institute and lived in Japan, where he learned to speak and read Japanese. Each episode follows the people who built the system and tests the famous stories against Toyota's own records.Made with AI: the research (fact-checked by Matt), the script, the music, the sound effects and the voices, including a copy of Matt's own. Presented by Kaizumi.
Episodes
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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...
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The thread
A village woman weaves at night. Her son, Sakichi Toyoda, grows up to build a loom that stops itself when a thread breaks, the first idea in what became the Toyota Production System. Along the way we test the legends against the records, including who really invented the Type G loom. Sources…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Loom to Line is the story of how the Toyota Production System came to be, from a hand loom in a Japanese farming village to the factories that changed how the world works.Host Matt Savas spent a little over ten years at the Lean Enterprise Institute and lived in Japan, where he learned to speak and read Japanese. Each episode follows the people who built the system and tests the famous stories against Toyota's own records.Made with AI: the research (fact-checked by Matt), the script, the music, the sound effects and the voices, including a copy of Matt's own. Presented by Kaizumi.
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Kaizumi Productions
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Loom to Line is the story of how the Toyota Production System came to be, from a hand loom in a Japanese farming village to the factories that changed how the world works.Host Matt Savas spent a little over ten years at the Lean Enterprise Institute and lived in Japan, where he learned to speak and...
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