live4theking
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I'm not necessarily a fan of foreign cars, but I found this to be interesting automotive history.
Not Chrysler, but automotive history...
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A good piece on manufacturing and really highlighting where the American Auto industry went wrong. Always improving, whether processes, technology, or staying in tune with your customer. When the US started focusing on purely profitability, they forgot about quality and the customer.
Our company has adopted many of the practices Toyota employs in manufacturing including kahnban and Kiazan along with the 5 why’s (now part of lean 6 sigma). It is all about quality and reducing waste. As the saying goes, you cannot inspect in quality. Quality has to happen as part of the process.
Our company has adopted many of the practices Toyota employs in manufacturing including kahnban and Kiazan along with the 5 why’s (now part of lean 6 sigma). It is all about quality and reducing waste. As the saying goes, you cannot inspect in quality. Quality has to happen as part of the process.
MoPar Maniac
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People forget we tought the Japanese everything they knew about manufacturing after WW II.
Why we didn't do it is beyond me.
Why we didn't do it is beyond me.
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As I lived in Japan for three different times during the 1960's [For example I was there and heard on Army AM radio Kennedy was shot and killed} and was there in 65 and 68 I can see very easily how this was achieved ,not only because of the Toyota company but mainly the the whole Japanese Culture of education, tradition,respect, rank that enabled all of this. Respect of elders was/is one of the most important things in Japanese culture. To learn as much as possible from them . All the way to their grave they are held with the greatest respect. They are never not respected by younger people no matter what the situation. Everything is in order. The education system is grueling ,the expectation to succeed is grueling , your participation in a company is not individual,,it is all for the company's good. Many brilliant minds go unnoticed under the umbrella of a big company. In Japan and here.
Incredible a country the size of California with No oil resources could become so very advanced and still is although a huge shadow of China is overhead.
Incredible a country the size of California with No oil resources could become so very advanced and still is although a huge shadow of China is overhead.
I think you meant taught. We taught {USA} the Japanese about manufacturing going back to WW1. Their claim to fame is research after gaining knowledge .
To make it better and superior
3175375
Old Man with a Hat
No doubt but the Japanese people were ripe to any and all info ,took it and ran with it to develop their own because of their society. Any spark would ignite it. Look at the Brilliance of the Japanese Navy from WW1 to WW2 and aircraft. Car's? OK but the train of thought remains.
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The real difference to me that is the tip of the iceberg between the USA and Japan is the young's respect of the older generation. They want to know your experience, knowledge, wisdom. Here in the USA they want many times[whether you like it or not] a short hospice stay [DEAD} as soon as possible,,get their inheritance,,go buy a car ,,get drunk,,,get drugs and brag they got money from an old fool. FOR NOTHIN> Not always but it happens. Older folk in the USA many times are considered nothing more than a burden.
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MoPar Maniac
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Yeah, I meant taught. Dang auto correct.
I fixed it.
I fixed it.
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
If the current guy is so in touch with the driving public why are they selling rebadged BMW roadsters as the new Supra's. This is a real insult to the people that loved the 90s Supra, which had the 2jz pretty much the 90s equivalent, same story as when the gen 2 hemi showed up.
That Scotty guy is a bit annoying, everything sucks unless it's a Toyota. Well mechanics would be shaking a tin cup on the corner if everyone drove a Toyota. Not to mention that the world would be a really boring place.
That Scotty guy is a bit annoying, everything sucks unless it's a Toyota. Well mechanics would be shaking a tin cup on the corner if everyone drove a Toyota. Not to mention that the world would be a really boring place.
Let me be clear ,I was living there in the 1960's which is where a large portion of this video concentrates on in the Toyota rise and development. I have not lived there in over 50 years and do not know what has changed in Japan since then. I have visited there many times since but not stayed for any length of time so I do not know how the society has changed. Would I want to live there? No,, but there is very much to admire from my memory.
78Brougham
"Chump"
Those things weren't always that "great" Apparently he never owned an early '70's Corrola that practically rotted on the ship over here. Back then they were pretty much junk and parts were practically non existent and you paid dearly for them.
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