{"id":5403,"date":"2013-10-01T05:38:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2013-10-01T05:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:38:44","slug":"5403","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5403","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/aa2759f8-26c6-11e3-9dc0-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk&#038;siteedition=intl\">Andrew Hill<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The innovator who led Toyota insisted that people were as important as the production system.<\/p>\n<p>Eiji Toyoda was the man who taught the world\u2019s production workers Japanese. If you know kaizen means continuous improvement, and use kanban inventory tags to eliminate muda, or waste, then Toyoda, who died recently, was your sensei.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota Production System he championed as head of the carmaker in the 1970s and 1980s, traces its roots to a fail-safe device devised by Toyoda\u2019s uncle to cope with thread breaks on mechanical looms. Multinationals have since turned its efficiency methods \u2013 \u201clean\u201d production, just-in-time supply chains and outsourcing \u2013 into a habit that is woven through the fabric of global production. However, in future, Toyoda\u2019s insights into the power of human initiative will be more relevant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hill: The innovator who led Toyota insisted that people were as important as the production system. Eiji Toyoda was the man who taught the world\u2019s production workers Japanese. If you know kaizen means continuous improvement, and use kanban inventory tags to eliminate muda, or waste, then Toyoda, who died recently, was your sensei. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}