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Intellectual biography of Taiichi Ohno (1912-1990) and Shigeo Shingo (1909-1990) — the architects of the Toyota Production System. Covers TPS core principles (Just-in-Time, Jidoka, the Seven Wastes, K

Learning to See source The Birth of Lean source The Toyota Way 2001 (Internal Document) source Fujio Cho Legacy Lecture Notes source Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System source Standing on the Shoulders of Giants source Toyota Kata source The Toyota Way Fieldbook source The Thinking Production System source Toyota Production System and Kanban System (1977) source Toyota Production System Basic Handbook source Toyota Production System Handbook (1973) writing Zero Quality Control writing Workplace Management writing Lean Thinking writing Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production writing A Study of the Toyota Production System writing Interview with Taiichi Ohno (1984) writing A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System writing The Toyota Way writing The Machine That Changed the World writing Jidoka concept Gemba concept Standard Work concept Heijunka concept Kanban concept Five Whys concept Takt Time concept Value Stream concept One-Piece Flow concept Muri and Mura concept SMED concept Pull Production concept Seven Wastes (Muda) concept Just-in-Time concept Kaizen concept A3 Thinking concept Andon concept Poka-Yoke concept Early Toyota and Wartime (1937-1950) era Western Discovery and Lean (1980-Present) era TPS Maturation (1965-1980) era Postwar TPS Foundations (1950-1965) era Toyoda Family Origins (1900-1937) era Sakichi Toyoda person Shigeo Shingo person James P. Womack person Taiichi Ohno person Fujio Cho person Jeffrey K. Liker person Kiichiro Toyoda person W. Edwards Deming person Teruyuki Minoura person Daniel T. Jones person Henry Ford person Eiji Toyoda person Denso organization Toyota Motor Corporation organization JUSE organization Ford Motor Company organization Toyoda Automatic Loom Works organization Lean Enterprise Institute organization TPS to Lean Software Transmission note TPS-Deming Connection note TPS Works Online Inventory note Toyota Wins the Deming Prize (1965) event MIT IMVP Study Begins (1985) event Oil Crisis Validates TPS (1973) event Ohno Begins Multi-Machine Experiments event Publication of Toyota Production System (1978) event Supermarket Visit and Pull Production Insight event