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Toyoda’s endless efforts resulted in refined auto looms that became famous. One of his most prominent inventions was a mechanism to automatically stop a loom whenever a thread broke. This automation system later became one of the two pillars of Toyota Production System, called “Jidoka”. Jidoka is a Japanese term for automation with human touch. In essence, it’s a system of building in quality control or “mistake proofing”. It also refers to constructing operations and equipment so the workers can perform other value adding tasks and not be continuously tied to a machine all the time. Toyoda was later called “King of Inventors” in Japan. (Liker J.K., 2004) His extensive contribution to the development of Toyota was his philosophy and approach to work based on passion for continuous improvement.

Toyoda’s “mistake proof” loom became extremely popular among small Japanese weaving firms. Due to its success, he decided to send his son Kiichiro Toyoda to England to negotiate the sale of his patent rights to the Platt brothers, the world’s premium maker of weaving equipment. Kiichiro sold ...

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