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Toyota's Five Why's

March 10, 2006 by Artem

Toyota is one of the industry leaders known both for its quality and revenues. It's quality system was being built for decades and quite often the quality of the cars was by an order of magnitude better, than what, say, it's US competitors had to offer.

There are few simple principles behind the Toyota quality system. Here are two of them:

• Built-in-quality
  Quality is not something that is added at the end of the production line. Every major robot that works on the car parts has sensors and intelligence to recognize defects early and either fix them or remove the detail from the line.
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