Toyota Motomachi Plant
1959 - Operational
Overview
Home plant where Taiichi Ohnos Toyota Production System matured: kanban pull signals, just in time flow, andon cords, and relentless kaizen. Motomachi has built generations of the Crown and now hand assembles GR performance models. Tours show lean manufacturing to the world.
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