After World War II, the Japanese economy to be done and 100, the Japanese Government formulated the 'income doubling plan' to focus on the development of the automobile industry as a strategic industry, and organizations to the automotive industry power in the United States to study. Ford in Detroit at the time of day the car plant capable of producing 7000 cars than Toyota's production company than a year. However, representatives from Toyota visited the United States after the plant, in the inspection report, but wrote: 'where the production system may have improved.'
Toyota is referring to the staff of a variety of factory waste, including: defective goods, the excess production over demand for idle goods inventory, unnecessary procedures, unnecessary movements, unnecessary transport of goods, the and other kinds of waiting. It is the existence of such waste so that they saw 'the possibility of improvement.'
Eiji Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno were resistant to first-class carried out a series of exploration and experiment, based on Japan's national conditions and put forward a series of improved production methods: the system in time production, total quality management, concurrent engineering, and gradually created a unique multi-species, low-volume, high-quality, low consumption mode of production. These methods after 30 years of practice, the formation of a complete 'Toyota Production System' to assist the auto industry from Japan was more than a powerful vehicle the United States, production reached 13 million, accounting for the world's car for more than 30% of the total.
In the manufacturing, electronics, computers, aircraft manufacturing and other industries. Toyota Production System has become the strategy of Japan's industrial competitiveness an important part of economic growth in Japan has played an increasingly important role.
The rapid rise of the Japanese economy and Japanese companies in the international market success greatly shocked the Western business community, especially U.S. companies. 80 years, governments and enterprises in the heavily subsidized, the United States the field of business management scholars have begun to in-depth study of the success of Japanese companies, while the existing management of the United States began to reflect on ideas and the lack of manufacturing methods.
The oil crisis, the Toyota Production System in Japan's auto industry has been rapidly growing popularity of business and reflects the immense superiority. At this point, the entire automobile industry in Japan has a higher level of production to a new level, and in 1980 its production of 11 million over the full United States as the world's largest automaker.
Competition in the market suffered a heavy defeat of the United States, has experienced twists and turns in the process of understanding, resulting in competition in the market finally realized that the key to failure is the U.S. production level of the automotive industry has been lagging behind Japan, which lies behind the key Japan adopted a new mode of production - Toyota Production System.
Daniel T. Jones, etc. More than 50 experts, spent 5 years in 17 countries on more than 90 vehicle manufacturers to carry out a comparative analysis, and published in 1992 called 'the machine to change the world' (The Machine That Changed the World) report of a well-known. The report summed up the Toyota production methods, pointing out that it's of great historical significance that this is yet another revolution in the manufacturing industry. Report of a far too cumbersome for the majority of American businesses, proposed the 'streamlined, reducing' measures, the success of the Japanese mode of production known as Lean Production.
