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A Brief Investigation into the Origins of the Toyota Production System

A Brief Investigation into the Origins of the Toyota Production System by Art Smalley

"Of all places, it was the American supermarket that inspired Taiichi Ohno's famous Kanban System on the production line. In the early 1950s Ohno observed how customers only picked up the number of items they needed from the grocery store."

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