TPM: The Connection Between You and 70s Japan
1. Quick background Between 1950 and 1970, Japanese companies invested a lot of time and attention to fine-tuning manufacturing. They discovered the key was empowering small groups of frontline employees in improvement projects. In 1971, Seiichi Nakajima formalized this and other insights into Total Productive Maintenance. Japan’s most famous contribution to manufacturing practices, JIT (just-in-time …










