TPS isn’t just Toyota Production System wrapped in the mystical glow of Japanese efficiency. TPS stands for something deeper -- Thinking People Strategy. It’s more human. More strategic. Because no ...

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Toyota Motor Corp. said it will gradually resume operations at its 14 domestic plants Aug. 30 after a system malfunction suspended production, a rare glitch for the world’s biggest carmaker as ...

The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a manufacturing philosophy and a set of management practices developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation. It emphasizes continuous improvement, just-in-time ...

Toyota has reportedly halted vehicle production at all its plants in Japan following a cyberattack against a major supplier, Nikkei has reported. "Due to a system failure at a domestic supplier ...

It’s a surprising setback given that Toyota is renowned for its "just-in-time" (JiT) principle, stemming from the Toyota Production System (TPS), initiated by Kiichiro Toyoda.

Toyota's 14 Japanese factories all shut down for about two days last week due to a production order system malfunction caused by a lack of disk space, the company announced today.

In the late 1940s an engineer named Taiichi Ohno began developing the Toyota Production System, basing it on the Japanese principle of kaizen, or continuous improvement. At Toyota it led to ...

Toyota Motor will restart operations at its assembly plants in Japan on Wednesday, after a production system malfunction brought domestic output to a halt at the world's biggest-selling automaker.

Together, Toyota’s plants in Japan account for approximately a third of the automaker’s global production, according to Reuters calculations. Toyota delivered almost 10.5 million cars last year.