Toyota Total Quality Management
Before the Second World War, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were the top automobile manufacturers. In 1926, the Toyoda family made weaving machinery under the name
"Toyoda Automatic Loom Works," headed by Sakichi Toyoda. At 20 years old, he invented an automatic loom that would stop if a thread were to break. Sakichi reflected,
"The textile industry at that time was not as large as today's. Mostly, older women wove at home by hand. In my village, every family farmed and each house had a hand-weaving machine. Influenced by my environment, I gradually began thinking about this hand-weaving machine. Sometimes, I would spend all day watching my grandmother next door weaving. The more I watched, the more interested I became." (Hall)
In 1933, Toyoda branched out to create a small car division. In 1935, with workers recruited from GM, their first automobile was similar to the Chrysler Airflow. In 1936, they changed their name to Toyota. Sakichi's son Kiichiro Toyoda took over the company, and passed away in 1952 at the age of 58. (Global)
In 1947, Toyota produced the Toyopet Model SA sedan. They only made 215 of these units, but it opened the doors for Toyota to enter the small car market. (Craig)
In 1959, Toyota began producing vehicles outside of Japan. They started with a small manufacturing plant in Brazil, and then expanded to plants overseas.
Their first domestically produced model was the 1.5-liter Crown. By 1962, over one million cars had been produced. Word of mouth got around that...
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