A Toyota spokesman said one of the goals of its lean inventories strategy was to ... causes flaws in semiconductors to gory details about production processes like what gases and chemicals you ...

More a Japanese philosophy. Pioneered by Toyota in the 1950s, it's known today as lean production. James May:And it has a simple goal: to completely eliminate waste from the production system.

The recent widespread shutdown at Toyota group’s assembly plants exposed a vulnerability in its hallmark “lean” production system, which minimizes inventory. It took 10 days for Toyota’s ...

Suspension springs made by Chuo Spring Company. Japan’s leading automaker Toyota Motor Corporation has suspended operations on three production lines at two vehicle assembly plants in Aichi ...

Dr Kevin Fong travels to the US to discover how the world’s largest car producer is trying to improve healthcare Show more In the third programme in the series, Dr Kevin Fong explores the ...

The Japanese automaker is cutting up to $3.3 billion from EV production plans with the introduction of the “Lean Asset ...

No matter what you call it, true efficiency is the enemy of the status quo.