In order in the eighties, the Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT) James P (James P. Womack), Daniel T (Daniel T. Jones), to search the strength of the indian automobile industry, the name which is used the occasion where it researches especially Toyota manufacturing system, generalizes that, it re-systematizes. Lean "it lost weight", "there is no surplus fat", in sense, in this case "the manufacturing system which is not wasteful" is.
Also automobile industry of the eighties and the United States the plate was done in export offensive posture of the indian car, panted in crisis. In such, in order that something source of competitiveness of the indian automaker as for you search, research was done IMVP which from 1985 designates MIT as the center (the international automobile program) by, was published the result as the report, "The Machine that changed the World" in 1990.
In this research project, the Takaoka factory of the factory and the Toyota Motor Corporation of GM was compared was analyzed. The GM factory the Toyota factory has aimed toward the fact that the product of the multi kinds is produced just proper quantity vis-a-vis planning the mass production by the Ford production system as still, it pointed out that equal to necessary amount does part order on the production line, lectotype ahead ordering, spreads joint development system and/or with the outside order company with are many differences. This manufacturing system was called the "lean production system".
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