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  • 1913

    1913
    Henry Ford introduces mass production at the Ford Motor Company factory.

  • 1924

    1924
    Sakichi Toyoda develops an automatic loom that stops automatically when it detects broken threads.

  • 1948

    1948
    Kiichiro Toyoda, son of Sakichi Toyoda, founds Toyota Motor Corporation.

  • 1950

    1950
    Taiichi Ohno is appointed head of production at Toyota and begins to develop the Toyota production system.

  • 1953

    1953
    The kanban system is introduced at Toyota.

  • 1962

    1962
    The book "Toyota Production System" by Taiichi Ohno is published.

  • 1980

    1980
    The American company Motorola implements the Six Sigma system, based on lean manufacturing, in its processes.

  • 1990

    1990
    The American company General Electric implements the Six Sigma system in its processes.

  • 1996

    1996
    The book "Lean Thinking" by James Womack and Daniel Jones is published, popularizing the term "lean manufacturing."

  • 2001

    2001
    The book "The Machine That Changed the World" by James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos is published, detailing the Toyota production system.

  • 2010

    2010
    The U.S. company Tesla Motors implements lean manufacturing in its electric car factory.

  • 2015

    2015
    The American company Amazon implements lean manufacturing in its warehouses and shipping processes.

  • 2018

    2018
    Japanese company Fujitsu implements lean manufacturing in its hardware factory.