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A Cop change method. See also shuttle-change All metal-enclosed bodies. See also wooden- automatic loom framed body covered with sheet steel Corona PT20, 137 Allowance. See also interchangeable parts Corporate Rationalization Promotion Act, APA. See Army Procurement Agency 88 Arima. See Yukio Arima Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 9 Army Procurement Agency, 135 Austin, 129 Automobile Manufacturing Industries Act, D 38 Daily Order System, 152 DAS. See Dynamic Assurance System Death of management, 88 B Diagram handling system, 121 Barcodes, 147 Diesel Kiki, 29 Bill of Materials, vii Dodge, 103 computerization of BOM, 154 Dodge Line, 86 Block-construction method. See also work- Dynamic Assurance System, 140 center method BOM.See Bill of Materials computerization of the BOM. See Spec- ifications Management System E Butty gang, 72 Efficiency pay system, 80 , 101, 138, 139, 151 End-of-month problem, 25 C Canon, 27 Celica, 152 F Central regrinding system, 74, 83 Facility Modernization Five-Year Plan, 85 Charles A. Francis, 45 Flow production, vi, 5, 71, 124 Chevrolet. See also General Motors Ford. See Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company, Cho. See Fujio Cho v, 101, 109. See also Ford production Chukyo Detroit Project, 49 system Coal wagon, 116 Ford Motor Company, 5 Colvin. See Fred H. Colvin Chicago plant, 104 Conveying equipment, 7 San Jose plant, 112 Conveyors. See also conveying equipment Ford production system, 8 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 163 K. Wada, The Evolution of the Production System, Studies in Economic History, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4928-1 164 Index

Ford’s production system. See Ford produc- Kenichi Horigome, 15 tion system Kiichiro Toyoda, vi, 40, 71, 73, 85, 119, 133 Frank G. Woollard, 5 “automatic cop changer,”, 45 Fred H. Colvin, 39 just-in-time idea, 66 Fujio Cho, 160 “The Toyoda Textile Machinery”. See Fusaz¯o Taniguchi, 45 also World Engineering Congress Type G automatic loom, 46 Whitin Machine Works, 85 G Kit-based assembly preparation. See also kit G. Charter Harrison, 106 marshalling General Motors, v Kit marshalling, 128 GM. See General Motors Kojima & Co., 61 G¯oguchi. See G¯oguchi production control Kokura Plant, 116 G¯oguchi production control, 66, 71 Koromo Plant, 53, 81, 87, 101, 110, 124, 137 Kyugor¯o Sakamoto, 48

H Henry Ford, 8 L Highland Park plant. See also Ford Motor Labor disputes, 101 Company Lancashire Cotton Corporation Ltd, 46 High-volume production, 5, 8 Liberalization of automobile trade, 151 Limit gauge, 48 I IBM cards, 104 M IBM machines, 105 Imperial Commemorative Award, 41 Management rationalization campaign, 86 Industrial Rationalization Council, 88 Mass production, 8 Interchangeable parts, vi, 8, 40, 48 Material consumption and costs, 84 Motors Limited. See Tokyo Automo- Materials handling, 109, 115 bile Industries Ltd Mazda, 140 Mitsubishi’s Aircraft works, 14 Mixed production, 103 J Model T. See also Ford Motor Company Japan Management Association, 16, 21, 90, Motomachi Plant, 110, 137 116 Moving-forward. See moving-forward Japan Productivity Center, 109 method Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Moving-forward method, 11 6 Mukaiyama Coal Mine, 116 JMA. See Japan Management Association Multi-machine handling, 83 JSPS. See Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Junkers, 10 N Just-in-time, v Nagoya Aircraft works. See Mitsubishi’s Nagoya Aircraft works Nagoya Engine Works of Mitsubishi Heavy K Industries, 10 Kanban, v Nakajima, 14 in-house Kanban, 147 Nakaoka, 28 supplier Kanban, 147 National Bulk Carriers Ltd, 28 Kariya Assembly Plant, 52 . See Nissan Motor Co. Ltd Kariya Auto Body. See Toyota Auto Body Nissan Motor Co. Ltd, 38 Kariya Plant. See Kariya Assembly Plant Noda. See Kazuo Noda Kazuo Noda, 7 Northrop, 44 Index 165

O Sh¯otar¯o Kamiya, 102 Ohno, Taiichi, v, 81 Shuttle-change automatic loom. See also Ohno lines, 81 Imperial Commemorative Award data collection method, 83 Smith Motor, 55 Okochi¯ Memorial Production Prize, 27 SMS. See Specifications Management Sys- Operation as per diagram, 116 tem Specifications Management System, 155 Standard physical unit, 149 P Statistical quality control, 134 Parts numbering method, 145 Supermarket system, 115, 129 Postwar inflation, 78 Suzuki Loom Manufacturing Co., 49 Production allowance, 78 Suzuki Motor Corporation. See also Suzuki Production allowance system, 91, 107 Loom Manufacturing Co. Productivity bonuses. See production allowance Productivity mission, 103 T See also Propulsive storage method. propul- TaizoIshida, ¯ 136 sive unit method Takaharu Mizuno, 150 Propulsive unit method. See also work- Takatoshi Kan, 62 center method Takt system, 23, 125 Pull system, 122 Therblig analysis, 16 Punched card. See also IBM cards Tokyo Automobile Industries Ltd, 38 Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipbuilding and Engi- neering Co.. See Tokyo Automobile Q Industries Ltd QC circle, 139 Total Quality Control, 138 QR codes, 147 Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, 48, 52 Automotive Production Division, 51 R Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd, 38 Recall problem, 140 Toyoda Boshoku, 46 River Rouge plant, 101. See also Ford Motor Toyoda–Platt Agreement, 46 Company Toyota, v Toyota Auto Body, 27, 112, 118 all-steel cabs, 118 S just-in-time method, 119 Sakamoto. See Kyugor¯o Sakamoto running trailers on a schedule, 119 , 43 transporting cabs to Toyota, 118 Second Imperial Commemorative wooden frame cabs, 118 Award, 43 Toyota Body Co., 58 Toyoda wooden hand loom, 43 Corporation. See Toyoda SD card, 146 Automatic Loom Works Ltd Sectional production. See Sectional Produc- Toyota Motor Co., 40, 51 tion Method. See also Sectional Pro- Facility Modernization Five-Year Plan, duction Method 76 Sectional Production Method, 11 historical organization, 89 Semi-flow production. See semi-flow pro- Honsha Plant, 138 duction method inventory problem, 60 Semi-flow production method, 23. See also “large cancer,”, 60 flow production Koromo Plant, 40, 53 Set production, 123, 126. See also kit mar- labor disputes, 87 shalling Motomachi Plant, 104 Setsuo Mito, 160 production allowance system, 91 Sh¯oichi Sait¯o, 81, 102, 134 rationalization movement, 89 166 Index

Takaoka Plant, 152 W Toyota Production System, v Wolseley Motor Company, 38 supermarket system, 115 Wooden-framed body covered with sheet Toyota Quality Control Award, 139 steel. See also all metal-enclosed Toyota-type supermarket method, 120 bodies TQC. See Total Quality Control Woollard. See Frank G. Woollard Type G automatic loom, 41 Work center. See work-center method Work-center method, 25, 90 World Engineering Congress, 43 U United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 10 USSB. See United States Strategic Bombing Y Survey Yukio Arima, 120