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Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production Hardback - 1988

by Ohno, Taiichi

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In this classic text, the inventor of the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing combines his candid insights with a rigorous analysis of Toyota's attempts at lean production to explain how lean principles can improve any production-oriented endeavor.

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  • Title Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
  • Author Ohno, Taiichi
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Productivity Press, Portland, OR
  • Date February 1988
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001831726
  • ISBN 9780915299140 / 0915299143
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.39 x 0.72 in (23.52 x 16.23 x 1.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Production control, Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87043172
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.234

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  • Library Journal, 07/01/1988, Page 0

About the author

TAIICHI OHNO was born in Dairen (Port Arthur), Manchuria, China, in February 1912. In 1932, after graduating from the department of mechanical engineering, Nagoya Technical High School, he joined Toyoda Spinning and Weaving. In 1943-, he was transferred to the Toyota Motor Company where he was named machine shop manager in 1949. He became Toyota's director in 1954, managing director in 1964, senior managing director in 1970, and executive vice president in 1975. Although he retired from Toyota in 1978, Mr. Ohno continues as chairman of Toyoda Spinning and Weaving. He resides in Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken. This book first appeared in Japan in May 1978 and reached its twentieth printing in February 1980. Productivity Press's 1988 edition is the first printed for the English-reading public