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10 Mar 10, 08:03:22
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| Forget Toyota. Chrysler's got the most problems. |
The car company that is off to the worst start of 2010 isn't Toyota. It's Chrysler Group. |
In the 1950s, a Toyota engineer named Taiichi Ohno, just back from visiting the United States, where he was wowed by its supermarkets, began to think about how he could use what he saw as a way to run a factory. He obsessed over the idea of eliminating waste, of avoiding inventory buildup, of empowering workers to follow instructions meticulously and of aiming to continually improve.