TOKYO — A malfunction that shut down all of Toyota Motor Corp.'s plants in Japan on Tuesday happened during an update of the automaker's parts ordering system, two people with knowledge of the matter ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor (7203.T), opens new tab was ramping back production at its Japan-based factories on Wednesday after a computer system processing orders for vehicle parts broke down on ...

Research Affiliate at CESifo , Research Affiliate at National Bureau Of Economic Research , Associate Professor at University Of California, Los Angeles Following WWII, Japan experienced three decades ...

he Toyota Production System, which was developed from the late 1940s through the mid-1970s by top Toyota executives to improve the company’s manufacturing processes, is now used by numerous companies ...

IT a roadblock to progress? Never, you say. How can that be when IT lives and breathes innovation? Who else but IT dared to usher open source, XML, SOA, and cloud computing out of the high-tech labs ...

In the first four parts of this lean energy management (LEM) series we have laid out the logic for adoption of lean management techniques common to other manufacturing industries like automotive and ...