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Taiichi Ohno
Ohno Taiichi was a Japanese industrial engineer and businessman. He is considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System, which inspired Lean Manufacturing in the U.S. He devised the seven wastes as part of this system. He wrote several books about the system, including Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production.
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business · Japanese businessman and engineer (1912–1990) · businessperson · industrial engineer · inventor · engineer · management engineer · also Taiichi Ohno, Ōno Taiichi, Ohno
Born 29 February 1912 · Died 28 May 1990 · Q504100
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1990· 1 entry
Died 1990-05-28.
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1943· 1 entry
Where he worked as a shop-floor supervisor in the engine manufacturing shop of the plant, and gradually rose through the ranks to become an executive
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1912· 2 entries
Born 1912-02-29.
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In Manchuria, 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 Kiichir
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