I love this, because of course there are specific opportunities when one must build many thousands of the same thing. This doesn't detract at all from Toyota's

I love this, because of course there are specific opportunities when one must build many thousands of the same thing. This doesn't detract at all from Toyota's ideal batch size of 1, or from the lessons they learned and shared on the way to such huge scale. My claim is that we (the West) are failing to succeed in manufacturing (and have been for decades) because our focus is on quantity and the very people who could solve the core problems will be so busy planning out the next 2 years, they will not see the wave cresting above their heads.