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Please find below the useful information about Taiichi Ohno, the Quality Guru that close to Dr. Shigeo Shingo. Happy reading!
Taiichi
Ohno (大野 耐一 Ōno Taiichi, February 29, 1912 – May
28, 1990) was a prominent Japanese businessman. He is considered to be the father
of the Toyota Production System,
which became Lean Manufacturing in
the U.S. He devised the seven wastes (or muda in Japanese) as
part of this system. He wrote several books about the system, including Toyota
Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Born in 1912 in Dalian,
China, and a graduate of the Nagoya Technical High School (Japan),
he joined the Toyoda family's Toyoda Spinning upon graduation in 1932
during the Great Depression thanks
to the relations of his father to Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of Toyota's founding father Sakichi Toyoda. He moved to the Toyota motor company in
1943, and gradually rose through the ranks to become an executive. In what is
considered to be a slight, possibly because he spoke publicly about the
production system, he was denied the normal executive track and was sent
instead to consult with suppliers in his later career.
Ohno's principles influenced areas outside of manufacturing, and have
been extended into the service arena. For example, the field of sales process engineering has
shown how the concept of Just In Time (JIT) can
improve sales, marketing, and customer service processes.
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