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The Toyota Production System: how a small Japanese loom maker became the world's most efficient automobile manufacturer. Kaizen, just-in-time, and the management philosophy that influenced every manufacturing company on earth.
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Toyota's factories are designed so that every worker's environment makes quality inevitable: andon cords stop the line when defects appear, kanban cards control inventory flow, and visual management makes problems visible instantly.
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Postwar Japan had no steel, no capital, and no market. Toyoda could not control macroeconomic devastation. He could control the quality of every car Toyota produced. That stoic discipline through chaos built the foundation for global dominance.