Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
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Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#2I've seen this news of Toyoda's passing posted across various social media channels and it's incredible to see how many Toyota owners have thanked him posthumously. I remember that when Steve Jobs died. This seems similar in a sense.
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#3I've seen this news of Toyoda's passing posted across various social media channels and it's incredible to see how many Toyota owners have thanked him posthumously. I remember that when Steve Jobs died. This seems similar in a sense.
>This seems similar in a sense.
They exist in very similar segments portions of their respective industries serving very similar customer demographics (in North America). Naturally there is going to be quite a bit of evolutionary convergence.
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#4> establishing a culture of quality control that helped Toyota evolve into a world-leading automaker.
A lot of the JIT stuff that is so common, these days, was revolutionary, when he introduced it.
I'm told that many agile techniques also had their genesis in his work.
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#5> establishing a culture of quality control that helped Toyota evolve into a world-leading automaker. A lot of the JIT stuff that is so common, these days, was revolutionary, when he introduced it. I'm told that many agile techniques also had their genesis in his work.
It was mainly Taiichi Ohno who thought and created their production system and philosophy, not Toyoda.
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#6> establishing a culture of quality control that helped Toyota evolve into a world-leading automaker. A lot of the JIT stuff that is so common, these days, was revolutionary, when he introduced it. I'm told that many agile techniques also had their genesis in his work.
It was mainly Taiichi Ohno who thought and created their production system and philosophy, not Toyoda.
Ah. I was always under the impression that it was Toyoda.
Thanks for the correction!
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#7I've seen this news of Toyoda's passing posted across various social media channels and it's incredible to see how many Toyota owners have thanked him posthumously. I remember that when Steve Jobs died. This seems similar in a sense.
>This seems similar in a sense. They exist in very similar segments portions of their respective industries serving very similar customer demographics (in North America). Naturally there is going to be quite a bit of evolutionary convergence.
Are there though? Toyota is never perceived as a luxury brand, it is associated with quality, reliability and maintainability.
Something that you can hardly say about Apple.
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#8> establishing a culture of quality control that helped Toyota evolve into a world-leading automaker. A lot of the JIT stuff that is so common, these days, was revolutionary, when he introduced it. I'm told that many agile techniques also had their genesis in his work.
It was mainly Taiichi Ohno who thought and created their production system and philosophy, not Toyoda.
Who learned the Toyota/Toyoda way from Sakichi Toyoda.
https://www.toyota-industries.com/company/history/toyoda_sak...
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
>This seems similar in a sense. They exist in very similar segments portions of their respective industries serving very similar customer demographics (in North America). Naturally there is going to be quite a bit of evolutionary convergence.
Are there though? Toyota is never perceived as a luxury brand, it is associated with quality, reliability and maintainability. Something that you can hardly say about Apple.
iPhones have a far longer service live than androids.
Re: Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
#10> establishing a culture of quality control that helped Toyota evolve into a world-leading automaker. A lot of the JIT stuff that is so common, these days, was revolutionary, when he introduced it. I'm told that many agile techniques also had their genesis in his work.
My father worked for a defense manufacturer making airplanes and other stuff. One of his first projects was scheduling parts for manufacturing in the late 80s.
They joked at the time they used JIC (just in case) because they had so many random parts with no method to the madness. The scheduler worked out and they were able to move it off some high performance IBM (or similar) computer onto a PC that didn’t require a specialized IBM tech or support contract, written in C.