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7. Quality and Its Assurance

Author : Kazuo Wada

Published in: The Evolution of the Toyota Production System

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Shortly after the end of World War II, Kiichiro Toyoda claimed that if Japanese automobiles could not compete with foreign counterparts in terms of cost and quality, this meant “the death of the management of the [Japanese] automobile industry” (Wada 1999, p. 522). Once Toyota somehow managed to produce the automobile, the issue of automobile quality was recognized as an important management issue.

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Metadata
Title
Quality and Its Assurance
Author
Kazuo Wada
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
The Evolution of the Toyota Production System

Print ISBN: 978-981-15-4927-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-4928-1

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4928-1_7

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