Toyota's Secret

When entering the lobby of Toyota headquarters in Japan, you can see two small portraits and a large portrait hanging there. Two small shows are founder and current president. A large portrait shows an American. I am Dr. Edward Deming. Who is Edward Deming? Who is he? But this is a long story and people can not explain that Edward Demicin is not involved in people like Japanese, Americans, and Toyota. So ... ... at the end of the Second World War, the Japanese left the ruined country, the former house and economic ruins.

The early history of Nummi is well documented, but it is controversial. It was advertised as an example of Labor Secretary Robert Reich of HBR calling for a secret window of General Motors for Toyota or "a joint venture with Japan to abandon our future." Of course, the truth lies somewhere in between. . And this truth tells us a lot today. For Toyota, this is its first major manufacturing investment in the United States. What is a better way to understand the features of the US auto market than GM? Toyota learned how to coordinate the famous Toyota production method to work with US suppliers, US government regulations, and most important UAW. Two years after GM entered school, Toyota invested in the first fully owned factory in the United States; Kentucky's new factory eventually became the largest factory overseas Toyota.

In the early 1980s, Toyota wanted to start producing automobiles in America. For this purpose, they are working with competitors' GM. This is a learning transaction. Toyota will learn how to use the labor union and American management style, and GM will learn the secrets of Toyota making low quality, high quality cars. GM believes that designers, marketers, engineers manufacture automobiles and workers at the assembly line manufacture automobiles according to their instructions. This is an artificial structure - design and innovation must continue in the field. "In court" When actually creating the final product, the manufacturer has more expertise than the designer.

Lexus is part of Toyota, and their slogans are luxurious; it specializes in the production of sophisticated luxury and executive cars. Toyota launched the highest confidential project of code name F1 called "flagship" + "first car". This project is aimed at expanding LS 400, the first product of the Toyota product line F1 project, which enables Toyota to establish its position in the luxury goods field and provide high-end market products to new and old customers . After launch, more products were released