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Quality and Its Assurance

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The Evolution of the Toyota Production System

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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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    Kazuo Wada

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Wada, K. (2020). Quality and Its Assurance. In: The Evolution of the Toyota Production System. Studies in Economic History. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4928-1_7

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