It is the production method built by TOYOTA and that brought the company at the top of the world class manufacturing in the automotive industry.
The building of the system, went through trials and errors forging the philosophy of the continous improvement that today is adopted by the best in class companies around the world.
Initiators of the TPS were Kiichiro Toyoda (son of the founder of the Toyota Motor Company) and Taiichi Ohno a middle manager that during the long years of the TPS development has climbed all the company positions till to become the Toyota Vice President.
The TPS given origin at many now normal new industrial methodologies like: Just In Time and TPM.
The TPS spread a new industrial revolution that has born in Japan (following Deming and Juran works) but became of worlwide impact.
