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by SnowHill9902 1216 days ago
It was mainly Taiichi Ohno who thought and created their production system and philosophy, not Toyoda.
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ericalexander0 1216 days ago
Who learned the Toyota/Toyoda way from Sakichi Toyoda.

https://www.toyota-industries.com/company/history/toyoda_sak...

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ChrisMarshallNY 1216 days ago
Ah. I was always under the impression that it was Toyoda.

Thanks for the correction!

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hef19898 1216 days ago
It was , as all big achievements, a team effort. And apparently Ohno is getting not that much of coverage in internal Toyota documents and history. He also did seem to EDIT: not EDIT be the nicest of persons. He absolutely was one of the drivers during the early days of TPS.
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