Toyota Production System

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a. Sony is a Japanese conglomerate corporate with headquarter in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka in 1946. It was ranked at the 105th in the list of Fortune Global 500 last year. Sony’s main products and services include electronics, games, entertainment and services such as banking & insurance. Notably, Sony is the fourth largest TV manufacturer after Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and TCL. Sony’s slogan is BE MOVED. b. Sony has reported to have a net loss of…

It has laid the foundation for a lean manufacturing system which is evident in the entire organisational structure. The lean manufacturing is not only implemented in the shop floor but also in the board room, the sales offices, and quite clearly in the product development process. The traditional big batch mass production model has been supplanted by a lean production model. It is customer focused, emphasis on continuous improvement in waste reduction, operating…

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industry, there are huge costs to be encountered hence the firms always opt to stay put even in the face of bankruptcies. Companies in the industry also competes in innovation and this enhances the levels of competition witnessed in the industry (Toyota Motor Corporation, 2014). In the same vein, customer loyalty is also high within the industry and this makes competition extremely high. Key success factors in the automotive industry One of the key successful factors in the industry relates…

1. COUNTRY ANALYSIS The company for my research is Honda Motors Corporation Limited. Although it’s a Japanese automobile manufacturing company it is traded in the US stock market: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Hence, I am conducting my country analysis on the USA. The USA economy is the world’s largest economy in the world having a GDP of $17.4 trillion with a growth rate of 2.4% as of 2014. It contributes 17% to the global GDP (Gross Domestic Product). The US GDP per capita is $54,170 which…

In 28 August 1937, a Japanese automotive manufacturer was founded – Toyota. Sakichi Toyoda was the founder of Toyota Company. Before Toyota was founded, the Japanese based on imported trucks during the war in Manchuria. During the era of Great Depression, Japanese realised that local production would reduce costs, provide jobs, and brings up the country’s economy. By 1936, just after the first Toyoda vehicles was produced, Japan authority restrict that any car dealer in the country needed to…

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Beside it, ford would start the production of military bombs to help the war effort in German and they produce the B-24 bombs and jeep during the outbreak of Second World War. In the year 1954, ford would introduce a new vehicle known as Thunderbird. Moreover, Ford offer would offer the…

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