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Text 2. Late Bloomer.


About the time Henry Ford built his first car, the quadricycle, in 1896, eccentric Japanese inventor Sakichi Toyoda, 29, invented his first – weaving loom. Toyoda and his son Kiichiro licensed the foreign patent rights to a British company for $60 million and used the money to enter the car business in 1934.


In 1959 Toyota’s Motomachi factory became Japan’s first full-scale car assembly plant. The size of 35 baseball fields, it is one of a dozen Toyota factories scattered around company town Toyota City.

The factory offers a walk through car-manufacturing history, much of which Toyota has written, and whose successful methods the world’s automakers – and other manufacturers - have rushed to adopt. Pink-and-green rubber flaps hang on the freshly painted cars to guard against scratches, one of hundreds of thousands of ideas factory workers continually submit to improve Toyota, and one that is now a common feature in car factories worldwide.

There is the rope hanging above the assembly line. A worker can pull it like a bus stop request if there’s a quality problem he can’t fix quickly. A tug on the rope causes music to play and lights up a number on the electronic billboard overhead, showing managers where a worker needs help.

It is hard to overstate how revolutionary that rope was for the auto industry: Allowing a mere blue-collar worker to stop the line would have been heresy in Detroit a few decades ago, as managers were more concerned about keeping up volume than quality. Now most car factories do it the Toyota way.

Another Toyota innovation is within reach of the assembly line: stacks of car parts in plastic bins, neatly sorted in the sequence in which they’ll be needed for the mix of cars coming down the assembly line. There are only three to four hours’ worth of parts at Motomachi, and shipments arrive every two hours, just in time to keep the line going. That cuts down on inventory and wasted factory space, and this, too, has been widely copied.
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