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Toyota: Kanban in Kentucky. (Toyota Motor Corp; Japanese word for visible signal used to notify suppliers when to send next installment of parts)(includes related article) (JIT Report)
Purchasing, September, 1992
At one time just-in-time was a catch phrase used to describe the Toyota production system. If Toyota did not invent JIT - many would cite Henry Ford's mammouth River Rouge complex as a proto-JIT workshop - the Japanese automaker certainly is one of the few undisputed masters of lean production today. The Camry, which is the only model produced at the Georgetown complex, was cited by J.D. Power, an independent research group, as the most trouble-free car built in the U.S.
Toyota was a little more cautious than Honda in establishing beach-head in the States. It chose to test the waters through a joint venture with GM, in Fremont, Calif., called New United Motors Mfg. Inc. (NUMMI), before going it alone in Georgetown, Ky.
Admittedly, Fremont,...
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