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I learned that as Toyotism. EDIT: Another therm for that is "Lean manufacturing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L

• lanaius 12y ago
  Lean manufacturing works right up to the point where one of your vendors gives you a bad part. Your choice is to either shut down a line or have excess backup supplies at which point there's no need to have been lean.
  • e12e 12y ago
    I'm not sure how it helps to have a backup supplies of bad parts? It should be obvious that quality control across the entire supply chain is vital to make lean work -- and indeed that is how Toyota and others does it: They work very closely with suppliers.