I've just been in japan and it's amazing to see that they still have Toyota crown comfort taxis from the late 90s everywhere ! This is something that you just don't see anywhere else.
2010 Corolla, 360,000 miles ... daily driver, survives Minnesota blizzards with -60 wind chill, still not a spot of rust ... still gets 45mpg on highway ... only mechanical failure since new is one alternator (less than $200) that took me 15 minutes to replace by myself using one socket/ratchet ... I think Toyota's build quality speaks for itself
Mine too, 360,000 miles (575000 kms). Used as a taxi before me, a lot of city driving. And it still runs. But it's not a Corolla, it's a Daihatsu made Toyota called Avanza
Losers like you still don't understand that windchill means NOTHING. Your vehicle will never reach any temperature lower than ambient. EVER. Mean while I have a 98 Dodge Ram 2500 diesel. 300k miles. Oil and filters. Wyoming and Colorado... -25F. What is your fing point again?
+Mr BrightSide Honda is actually eighth. Just cause its Japanese does not mean it is the most reliable. Toyota and Lexus occupy the top two spots, however.
Toyota makes it's cars with help of different brands now. New Aygo is made with the help of PSA(Imagine that.), new Supra is made with the help of BMW. Previously they had to get help from Yamaha to build their perfomance engines. Honda, though, is all-Honda.
My step-dad was a long time Ford pick-up truck owner. At some point later in life he ended up getting a used Corolla. He kept complaining that he wanted to get rid of it but the damn thing just wouldn't die!
@@Bass1ne That's so unreal, but when I got my first car (2009 Nissan Sentra, 138,000 miles) I drove it for 3 years without getting an oil change because I was tight on money. Eventually, I got a way better job after I finished school and I'm still using the same car now at 180,000 miles on it. I've now had the car for 5 years.
I'm surprised they didn't talk about how Toyota was the first to experiment with a modular design. They had 6 independent teams create an engine for the Prius given a predefined interface to the engine. The most efficient design made it to the final stage of production. They credit that process to the efficiency breakthrough of the hybrid Prius engine.
I think they have the right idea personally. There’s no way we can convert all cars to electric with the current mining of the elements needed. Toyota can make 6 or more plug in hybrids like the Prius prime or rav4 prime with the same amount of raw materials as 1 Tesla. For now we’re resource limited on how many EVs we can produce. So if you have the option to make 6 plug in hybrids with 40 miles of all electric range or 1 EV with 300 miles of range; the Toyota route gets you 6 cars that are all electric 80+ percent of the time. Vs the EV route of having one car all electric. Plus, many people can’t afford to have two cars and occasionally have to do a long road trip. If I had a plug in hybrid, I could get all the benefits of a full EV on my daily commute. but still not need to worry about range anxiety on a long road trip.
@@faranocks There was a series of NY Times articles on Boeing's South Caroline plant which makes the 787 dreamliner, and apparently the plant is very poorly run compared with their high quality plants in Washington state. It was an eye opening article. The South Carolina plant was in such a hurry to complete planes on schedule that tools (including an entire frickin ladder!!), trash, and dangerous metal shavings were left INSIDE the brand new planes. QA managers who reported these issues were ignored or pushed out. A Boeing customer, Qatar Airways, apparently refuses to accept planes built in SC, and would only accept the 787s built in Everett Washington.
That's indicative of American companies because American companies only care about money and that mindset of greed has hurt this country over the past 4 or so decades.
The reason Nissan, Toyota, and Honda have/had so much success in the US is due to the fact that they began designing cars with fuel efficiency in mind whereas American automakers were just looking to make cars for profit. Greed has and is hurting America. How many US-made cars end up in junkyards compared to Japanese cars.
Toyota always wanted profit, but they have other markets than USA, and thus european and asian regulations play a bigger part than american. The only car i can recall being made for americans would a Tacoma
Gas in Europe costs 2 euros a litre. In the US it's 80 cents. American manufacturers never prioritized efficiency because there was literally never a demand for it.
@@GeneralKenobi69420 even now though, american cars have a poorer fuel economy to their european and japanese counterparts. Difference in market I guess
No mention of W Edwards Deming who helped and taught the japanese the processes that lead to Kaizan and JIT, the American big 3 ignored him so he took it where people would listen
Airplane EDM航空機と音楽/ Also depends on how much maintenance is needed. A Chevy traverse needs plenty of expensive maintenance over its life while cars that need less maintenance stay around. Overall, though all cars need maintenance, those that need less last longer, unlock those that end up with cracked engine blocks(Cadillac North Star 8 for example)
They already do. That’s why they have the most they can automated by robots that do exactly the same work in the exact same way every time eliminating human error.
My dad had an old Corolla. He bought it used and drove it 240 miles a day (round trip) to work and back. Went the engine finally quit running it had a little over a million miles on it. Toyota knows how to make a great car!
@pritpalgill3239 yea, he was living in Willows, CA, and worked in Benicia, CA. Google says it is 113.4 miles, city to city, but from home to work, it was closer to 120 miles one way. The car was an 87' Corolla hatchback (pumpkin orange). He bought it used in 92', and the car finally threw a piston rod through the block in (I think) 2001 or 2002
In the late 80's I was at the Camry plant in Georgetown KY. The JIT in action was amazing. The supplier of the car seats had Toyota's production schedule weeks ahead. There was literally no staging area. The seats came off the semi trailers, and into the next car coming down the line.
I am proud, that as a consultant I was part in thee Boeing JIT transformation using the Toyota Lean Model. This really empowers people to be part of the process as thinking and profiting individuals, day by day.
I don't think it's fair to say that kanban was a precursor to barcodes. They are two completely different things that serve completely different purposes. Kanban is a resource planning system. Barcodes are used for resource tracking. So really they serve different yet complementary purposes. Also you can't "plan" a project with barcodes. That's what kanban is for.
When I worked for Aisin Kikou Shin-Toyota Plant we learned that the kanban was supposed to be treat like a 100 dollar bill, without it things would get lost, and things would start to go really bad. But I was just an assembly line operator for the Lexus branch, so what do I know right?! hahahaha.
This comment will most definitely get buried an no one will probably even read it BUT back in 2014-2016 I worked at the Toyota plant in Woodstock Ontario, making the RAV4. Basically everything they said in this video is true except for when you pull the cord and everyone works on a car to fix the problem. Only a few team leaders would fix the car and if it got off of your line (trim line) and got sent to the chassis line next, then the team leader in charge of that car would have to keep trying to fix it up until it was fixed.
Cooper Pinter - Toyota is starting to get the driving experience better. It's true, it's one reason I don't own one. I'd really love to have the 'forget it' reliability of a Toyota, but I want something that's at least a little bit interesting to drive. Toyotas typically are as fun to drive as a washing machine. Mushy steering and suspensions.
It's funny coming back to a video extolling the virtues of Just In Time after a pandemic and supply crunches highlighted the unmentioned or glossed over pitfalls.
In 250 millions I think there are 100 millions Corolla which hasn't die yet cause in this comment section people are explaining how nice their Corolla is .
Having one worker be able to stop an entire production plant sounded crazy to my ears the first time I heard it. Still does in some way but apparently it works, so that’s great
@@mattc9009 nah its a series of perfecting the positions, you have inspectors coming in now and then and try to improve so they time you while doing a task etc.. it's autistic as fuck but it's Japanese idea so not surprised.
I work at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, in the Lexus plant. I don't know if it's different in Japan, but when the andon is pulled the line never stops. It just notifies a team leader who will assess the situation. Team leaders can stop the line, but they'll only do so if there's a safety concern or a problem with the machinery. The quality issue on the car is either fixed on that line while it's still running, or they let it go to online repair which is right after final line and before inspection. If the problem can't be fixed online then they'll take it to offline repair.
I completely agree with they should have been keeping working with yamaha as they did with the supra and lfa years ago we don't know how people are going to react when the new supra will be unveil
These days making anything other than Crossovers and SUVs is not profitable. There is no choice other than supplying parts from somewhere else to make it happen.
The last minute is one that has greater weight in 2024. The pandemic taught us all that what we called "Waste" is also Redundancy, Backup, and Adaptability. Toyota is struggling with electric car production and marketing, Boeing's planes are literally having parts fall off in flight, and Intel is hopelessly behind in AI innovation and market share. Toyota did change the way we made things, and we learned the hard way that is came with substantial negatives as well.
Once, we had a lean manufacturing in-house training and the trainer asked, “Do you practise just-in-time?” My colleague replied, “When we come to work in the morning and go back in the evening.” 😂
If you leave your bag in Japan in a public space it will never get taken away. Honor and integrity is a fabric of Japanese culture hence the Toyotas that last forever.
Michaelson Sarmiento The Japanese people are honest. I think they are nice people, but Israel will always be the best, most perfect county in the world by far as everyone knows.
@@cocotaveras8975 this makes no sense. For the sheer size of the country japan is, they’re the most societally organized and impressive. Israel is a symbol of controversy in many parts of middle east
Wishful thinking. Japan has a low crime rate, but recently the country has been experiencing incidents that make the world scratch its head about the notion of a "safe Japan".
Toyota didnt make fastest car, most beautiful car but they make car that can last forever with just basic maintenance. My parents 10 years Camry still doing well without any major part replaced, while 2 year old Peugeot 508 had engine prob, power window issue and we need to replace aircond compressor.
The "Just In Time" system of parts management revealed many shortcomings during a recent epidemic. (These were the "supply chain issues" we kept hearing about). Boeing has a reputation for poor quality control and design.
Odd, no mention of the Shewhart/Demming cycle sent over with Dr. Demming to Japan after the war to help manufacturing. Shoichiro Toyoda, Honorary Chairman and director of Toyota: “There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.”
Amazing Video. How Toyota changed the whole world. lean manufacturing, Kaizen, Just in time all we need to use and apply on our organizations. Thank you.
I am seeing a new light..I ve always driven chevy n recall many repairs..car dead at 110k..my recent purchase outside of chevy car was Nissan.200k n going. My new research has me in awe over Toyota . Which Suv or truck should I aim for?
I went to a toyota/lexus plant last year near Fukuoka on an exchange trip. Those factories are crazy efficient, everything runs on the dot. Pretty impressive
I really don't see what you can get for a lot less and is still comparable let alone a lot better. Companies have to be competitive and as such they are priced reasonably relative to the quality and the market segment.
I love Toyota’s. In fact, my mom has one and my dad has one. Also, three of my aunts have one too. Mine is a Honda Accord. But, I want to get a Highlander.
You skipped over the contributions by W. Edward Demmings. He was a significant factor in this success. So much so Japan created an award for him. An impressive feat for a foreigner, especially one from the country that dropped two nuclear bombs on it a few years previous.
You forgot to credit Dr. Demi and Peter Drucker that where rejected by GM motors and embraced by Toyota, they are real fathers of this production system
This is a very interesting video. If the information presented was accurate then it is very useful information. There is some information presented at the start of the video that is false. Japan actually has large sources of high grade coal and iron ore before and after WWII. The image that Japan has insufficient natural resources is misleading. It was used as an excuse by the Imperial Japanese Government to invade and colonize Korea and China, which led to WWII in the Pacific and throughout Asia. The defeat of Imperial Japan demonstrates the industrial capacity of a large continental country like the US versus a large island country like Imperial Japan. Japan has significant sources of high grade coal and iron ore for their military infrastructure to build the weapons of WWII. Even today you can find massive iron foundries in Japan. Plus Japan still has a lot of undeveloped land north of Tokyo. I think this video was very helpful, but it also presented misleading facts about Japan. Japan is one of the most industrialized country in the world along with the US, England, Germany, ... and that will continue into the foreseeable future. One important aspect about Japan's post-WWII development has to do with the US limiting Japanese military capability. When a country spends all of its resources on making their consumer product industries competitive they reap the benefits of large sales abroad. The profits made in other countries are brought back to Japan as profit which directly benefit the average Japanese. You see this in Germany also. The two industrially developed countries who lost WWII could no longer spend large portions of their GDP on war. They concentrated their resources on consumer products that raised their standard living. When the Allies imposed democracy and limited war expenditure on Japan and Germany both countries focused industrial development of consumer products. Which led to a better life for their citizens.
At 3:45 directly after saying american gas guzzling vehicles, it shows a red mustang svo roll by. That car was one of fords first 4 cylinder turbo cars, and definitely not the typical has guzzler by any means. Great video anyways, my inner car nerd just kicked in is all. I'm a proud Toyota owner.
My last Tacoma I traded in at 360k, it was an 01, I now have the 18, love this truck. If I'd had the extra money I would've held onto my old truck too, but I still got decent money for it and it had a newish frame after Toyota replaced it. Miss that old boy. If my new truck is half as reliable as that guy I'll be happy.
I think the real secret of highly cost-efficient operation might come from the working ethic. If the whole team needs to stop the whole assembly line to fix one car, the engineers and mechanics have to do it quickly.
no. its a difference of prioritizing quality over quantity. in a GM plant during the same era anyone who stopped the line, even if to retrieve an injured worker, would be met with a team of managers screaming and shouting at them to restart it ASAP
Great video! The andon cord doesn't stop the line, until it is pulled a second time. The first pull, gives the Team Leader just enough time to grasp the problem. Also, the 70% line, helps the Team Members to judge when to pull the line. Great information share!
Just don't forget lean means you have a small amount of inventory, not none. And it is no excuse to not be prepared for when a supplier is shut down and can no longer provide parts. Redundancy is just as important if not more.
i literally spent 3 years and $19,000Cad to learn this is college. and yet, Bloomberg summarized it blissfully. Every automotive facility almost globally uses a system that steams from Toyoda's system. Realistically they are a forefront even today's market, there demographic is ripe with populations for a market that loves small cars. GM ($35USD/share) and Ford($10USD) can barely hold together when fighting Toyoda($57USD{6500Yen}) trade war aside, they own a much bigger market they dominated us in the small-sized car marker, and our auto industry is on the brink of destruction unless we jump onto the manufacturing the Electric Vehicle market. I could go on for hours, but ill consider this a rant.
Re: stopping the production line to fix mistakes. The old adage "Practice makes Perfect" is actually wrong -- it should be "Practice makes Permanent." If you make a mistake and aren't corrected, you will continue doing it. That is why it's best to fix mistakes ASAP. Some YT channels talk about the Focus RS head gasket problem -- small problem with dire/expensive consequences.
I just learned Toyota really is Toyoda. Which is ironically how I pronounce it. But more importantly. Why? Did someone misspell their names in the registration or what?! I'm confused.
The name was chosen "because the number of strokes to write Toyota in Japanese (eight) was thought to bring luck and prosperity," Lucky eight. Read More: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8534294.stm
@@Olivia-W Yeah really, they went from a small Japanese car maker recovering from the war, to a booming multinational auto manufacturer in less than 20 years and now being one of the most popular Japanese automakers on the road (just behind Honda)
Yeah but Intel doesn't fix issues on the assembly line they just disable whatever is broken and sell it as a cheaper model Not to mention they stole many of their most popular functions from AMD, like multiple CPU cores, x64 support, and multiprocessor capabilities
Working for a company that throws JIT, SMED, Kaizen and Kanban at their productionproblems and thinks it automatically solves everything, this video made me laugh really hard.
Skips over Demming who introduced Total Quality Management to Japan. His ideas were largely ignored in the USA until Japan had a solid reputation for quality.