Henry Ford gets the credit for creating the first moving assembly line and revolutionizing the process of making cars, as well as manufacturing in general. And rightly so, but what Henry Ford also did ...

Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle has spent two decades applying a management methodology inspired by the Toyota Production System. This approach has become central to the hospital’s culture, ...

The supply chain disruptions triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic caused major headaches for manufacturers around the world. Nowhere was this felt more acutely than in the auto industry, which faced ...

A company that builds cars able to travel as far as the moon has more going on than just factories and machines. For Toyota, ...

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For several years, Farmer School of Business management professor John Ni has been taking supply chain operations and management students on a field trip to Kentucky to visit one of the leaders in ...

Strong leaders put business transformation in the hands of all employees. by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty In the late 1940s an engineer named Taiichi Ohno began developing the Toyota ...