When post war Japan was in dire need of reducing costs and improved productivity

Kiichiro Toyoda, brought his experience in adding efficiencies to processes from textile mills through conveyor and other automated systems

Eiji Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno introduced concepts known as Just-in-Time and jidoka, which are the pillars of the Toyota Production System.

The principles driving Toyota’s system Include

Defining customer values
Identifying the value stream for customer needs and desires
Identifying waste in the process
Creation of a continuous process flow
Continually working to reduce the number of steps & time taken from order to delivery