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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 ...

Toyota is considering shifting some of its production of its next-generation RAV4 to the United States as the automaker reevaluates manufacturing strategies in the wake of U.S. tariffs on imported ...

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.

Toyota has cut its 2026 production forecast by nearly 50%, now targeting around 800,000 units. Credit: RidhamSupriyanto/Shutterstock.com. Toyota reportedly plans to ...

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 ...

For North America, Toyota currently builds RAV4s in the U.S., but also in Canada and in Japan. In response to U.S. tariffs currently in place on imported vehicles, Toyota is reportedly considering ...

Japanese carmaker Toyota (TM) is considering becoming the latest overseas company to up U.S. production following the introduction of President Trump’s tariff strategy. Discover outperforming ...