Taiichi Ōno

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Ōno Taiichi ( Japanese大野 耐 一; born February 29, 1912 in Manchuria ; † May 28, 1990 ) is the inventor of the Toyota production system . He developed today's basic logistical methods of the Kanban system and just-in-time production between 1950 and 1982. The Japanese management concept Kaizen is also based on his ideas.

Life

Ōno studied at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. He joined Toyota in 1932. In the 1950s, he became production manager at the main Toyota plant. In 1956 he traveled to Detroit to visit the Ford Motor Company and General Motors automobile factories .

Ōno analyzed Henry Ford's production system and modified it for his own purposes, since this system of mass production was not suitable for small quantities with large variations. Manufacturing had to be efficient. At Ford, the scope of work was so minimal that the worker no longer had to think. There was only one motto here and it was "Move the sheet!". Ōno has given its workers the opportunity to stop the assembly line if there was a problem and solve the problem on the spot.

Ōno is the father of the Toyota production system, which he dedicated himself to well into old age. After retiring from Toyota, he became chairman of Toyoda Gosei, a supplier of instrument panels, steering wheels and other parts to Toyota. Here he has once again put into use everything that he had, in part, experimentally developed over decades in the Toyota factories.

Publications

  • T. Ohno: The Toyota Production System. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-593-37801-9 .
  • Taiichi Ohno: Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Productivity Press, 1988, ISBN 0-915299-14-3 .
  • Taiichi Ohno: Workplace Management. Productivity Press, 1988, ISBN 0-915299-19-4 .

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ōno is the family name, Taiichi the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ōno, Taiichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大野 耐 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchuria , China
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1990