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What if the secret to outperforming the world's most efficient manufacturers wasn't working harder, but working smarter by eliminating everything that didn't matter? In post-war Japan, Toyota faced an impossible challenge: American workers were nine times more productive. Rather than accepting defeat, one production manager asked a revolutionary question-were Japanese workers wasting effort? This simple inquiry sparked a manufacturing philosophy that would eventually reshape global industry. The Toyota Production System emerged not from business schools or laboratories, but from desperation and ingenuity on factory floors where survival demanded innovation. When the 1973 oil crisis devastated competitors, Toyota thrived, revealing that this wasn't just another management fad but a fundamentally different way of thinking about production, waste, and human potential. The legacy of Toyoda Sakichi and his son Kiichiro lives on in this system-Sakichi's auto-activated loom embodied machines working for people through human intelligence, while Kiichiro's vision was developing uniquely Japanese production techniques rather than merely importing American mass production.
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