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This article shows a timeline and video of the History of Lean Six Sigma.<\/p>\n

As with most things, The Toyota Production System (later to be called Lean in America) has been influenced by previous thought and influences current thinking. Below is a historical timeline of how Lean evolved over time, its roots, in both a graphical format 1<\/a><\/sup> and textual format 2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Here is the History of Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement from 1883 to the Present Day.<\/p>\n

Infographic: Historical Timeline of the Toyota Production System (Lean)<\/h2>\n

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Textual: Historical Timeline of the Toyota Production System (Lean)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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  • 1979: Several APICS members who had seen Toyota production facilities and understood the problems with MRP began to meet regularly.<\/li>\n
  • 1979: Norman Bodek forms Productivity Inc.<\/li>\n
  • 1979: First U.S. study missions to Japan to see the Toyota Production System<\/li>\n
  • 1978: Taiichi Ohno retires and becomes honorary chairman of Toyoda Auto Loom<\/li>\n
  • 1977: Nick Edwards presents a paper at the APICS conference describing the fallacies of MRP<\/li>\n
  • 1975: First English TPS handbook drafted by Sugimori, Cho, Ohno, et al.<\/li>\n
  • 1973: Oil Shock plunges Japan economy into crisis. Only Toyota makes a profit<\/li>\n
  • 1973: Toyota – Regular supplier improvement workshops begin with top 10 suppliers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • 1947 – 1949: Ohno promoted to machine shop manager. Area designated model shop.\n
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    • Rearrangement of machines from process flow to product flow<\/li>\n
    • End of one man one machine. Start of multi process handling<\/li>\n
    • Detail study of individual process and cycle times<\/li>\n
    • Time study and motion analysis<\/li>\n
    • Elimination of “waste” concept<\/li>\n
    • Reduction in work in process inventory<\/li>\n
    • In-process inspection by workers<\/li>\n
    • Line stop authority to workers<\/li>\n
    • Major component sections (Denso, Aishin etc.) of Toyota divested<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • 1946: Ford adopts GM management style and abandons lean manufacturing<\/li>\n
    • 1943: Edsel Ford dies<\/li>\n
    • 1943: Taiichi Ohno transfers from Toyoda Auto Loom to Toyota Motor Corporation<\/li>\n
    • 1943: Ford completes construction of the Willow Run bomber plant, which reaches a peak of one B-24 bomber per hour.<\/li>\n
    • 1940: Deming develops statistical sampling methods for the 1940 census, and then teaches statistical process control techniques to workers engaged in wartime production.<\/li>\n
    • 1940: Consolidated Aircraft builds one B-24 bomber per day. Ford’s Charles Sorensen visits to see if Ford’s methods can improve on that number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • 1890: Sakichi Toyoda invents a wooden handloom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • 1850: All of the American armories were making standardized metal parts for standardized weapons, but only with enormous amounts of handwork to get each part to its correct specification. This was because the machine tools of that era could not work on hardened metal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • 1822: Thomas Blanchard at the Springfield Armory in the U.S. had devised a set of 14 machines and laid them out in a cellular arrangement that made it possible to make more complex shapes like gunstocks for rifles. A block of wood was placed in the first machine, the lever was thrown, and the water-powered machine automatically removed some of the wood using a profile tracer on a reference piece. What this meant was really quite remarkable: The 14 machines could make a completed item with no human labor for processing and in single piece flow as the items were moved ahead from machine to machine one at a time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • 1807: Marc Brunel in England devised equipment for making simple wooden items like rope blocks for the Royal Navy using 22 kinds of machines that produced identical items in process sequence one at a time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • 1799: Whitney perfects the concept of interchangeable parts when he took a contract from the U.S. Army for the manufacture of 10,000 muskets at the low price of $13.40 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • 1760: French general Jean-Baptiste de Gribeauval had grasped the significance of standardized designs and interchangeable parts to facilitate battlefield repairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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