Tools & manufacturing · c. 1950

Toyota Production System

Just-in-time flow and stopping the line to fix problems.

Taiichi Ohno and Eiji Toyoda developed the system at Toyota from the late 1940s through the 1970s. Kanban, jidoka and continuous improvement set the global standard for manufacturing quality.

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What it built on 1

Moving assembly line 1913

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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