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The story begins with Sakichi Toyoda, a visionary and inventor similar to Henry Ford. Toyoda began manufacturing handlooms, which were cheap but required a lot of work. -
Oldsmobile created an assembly station for stationary production of cars. -
Henry Ford was trying to design a car that was easy to produce and easy to repair. He finally achieved his goal and created the Model T. -
Toyota motor company is founded -
Eiji Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno, from the Toyota automobile factory, began to use the concept of lean manufacturing. -
The engineer Shigeo Shingo introduced with poka yoke the idea that in production processes there was no way to make a mistake. -
Shigeo Shingo, reduction of time for tool preparation. -
Motorola set out to increase its quality to 99.99997 defect-free parts or 3.4 defects per million opportunities. This has been called the Six Sigma system. -
The term lean production was invented in the book The Machine That Changed The World. -
Currently, the term Lean Manufacturing is widely used in the industry because it is a philosophy of manufacturing excellence and because companies constantly look for tools and techniques that allow them to increase their competitiveness within the global market.