also loom fault detection was the first successful business of toyota, before they started automobiles. specifically Toyota invented a mechanism which would st

also loom fault detection was the first successful business of toyota, before they started automobiles. specifically Toyota invented a mechanism which would stop the loom if a single thread would rip anywhere. and the intuition that halting production if a fault is detected in car manufacturing goes back to that experience. and the offspring of that, the "Toyota production system" inspired lean. which inspired agile. and Kanban also is core of the TPS...