Taiichi Ohno

Ōno Taiichi (Japanese大野 耐 一; * February 29, 1912 in Manchuria; † 28 May 1990) is the inventor of the Toyota Production System. He developed the current logistical base methods Kanban system and just-in -time production in 1950 and 1982. Kaizen, the Japanese management concept is also based on his ideas.

Life

Ōno studied at Nagoya Institute of Technology. At Toyota, he came in 1932. In the 50s he was production manager at the main plant of Toyota. In 1956 he traveled to Detroit to visit the automobile factories Ford Motor Company and General Motors.

Ōno analyzed the production system by Henry Ford and transformed it from for his own purposes, since this system of mass production for small numbers in large variance was not appropriate. The production had to be efficient. At Ford, the scope of work were so minimized that the worker did not have to think. There was only one motto and the name was " moving the sheet ". Ōno has its machine operators the opportunity to stop the assembly line if there was a problem and a lasting solution to the problem on the spot.

Ōno is the father of the Toyota Production System, which he has devoted to old age. After his retirement, he became Chairman at Toyota Gosei Toyoda, a supplier of instrument panels, steering wheels and other parts for Toyota. Here he once again all that he has partially developed experimentally in the Toyota factories for decades, brought into use.

Publications

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