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About yields in 1980s/1990s. Friends in semiconductor equipment industry visited clean rooms in USA and Japan, and said the Japanese companies were much much m
by JJMcJ 4y ago
About yields in 1980s/1990s.
Friends in semiconductor equipment industry visited clean rooms in USA and Japan, and said the Japanese companies were much much more concerned with keeping them very clean.
Nothing to do with singing the company song in the morning, or liking bonsai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai, just attention to detail.
- pjscott 4y agoThank you. I can’t count how many people in those days attributed (for example) Japanese manufacturing success to visibly foreign things like karaoke and radio exercises when the real story was something vastly more interesting about factory management and how you coordinate the efforts of a lot of people to make a good car.
- JJMcJ 4y agoThen there's the pull cord on the Toyota assembly lines. Someone sees something wrong, they reach up, pull the cord, the whole line stops until the issue is resolved. Unlike American lines, where they defective cars would just roll on by. When Toyota and other Japanese makers started building in the USA, surprise, surprise, their cars made here were just as good as the ones from Japan.