Taiichi Ohno, the plant manager at Toyota is credited to have created just in time, Toyota Motor Corporation struggled through the 1930s. As you all know, primarily making simple trucks. In the early years, the company produced poor quality vehicles with primitive technology example, hammering body panels over logs, and they had little success. In 1930. Toyota as leaders visited Ford and General Motors to study their assembly lines, and carefully read Henry Ford's book today and tomorrow, written in 1926. They tested the conveyer system, precision machine tools, and the economies of scale idea.

Taiichi Ohno was a hands on manager and began his journey through Toyota's few factories, applying the pieces Suppose of jidoka. During his visit to the US, he had observed that in any well run supermarket, individual items are replenished as each item begins to run low on the shelf. Ohno applied the same principle to manufacturing. The previous process shouldn't make expired until the next process uses up its original supply of parts earlier supplied by the previous process. When the next process is down to a small amount of safety stock, this triggered a signal to the previous process, asking it for more parts. This was exactly the birth of just in time.

That brings us to the end of this lecture. It is now time to look at the steps to implement just in time. See you there.