The more I learned about these lean pioneers, the more I fell in love with this methodology. In the previous lecture, I had given you a brief of sakichi Toyoda, that story is known to all. But what most people don't know, is the struggle that this king of inventors had been through to achieve his accomplishments. Let's begin. There were many poor villages in Japan in 1860s. He awakened because of the sound of a loom.
His mother was still weaving cloth, even though it was very late at night. So kichi concerned about his mother's health, said, it's very late at night mother, and you seem to be very tired. Why don't you go to bed? His mother replied, I'm okay. I have to finish today's load of work. My son He his mother worked hard from early morning to late at night every day.
So he thought weaving is such a tiring work. Every day, all the people in the village take great pains to leave. I wish there was a more convenient loom soccer he thought strongly. If I think hard and work hard, I may be able to invent a machine. If I managed to do it, my mother wouldn't have to work as hard. So he asked his fellow villagers to let him investigate the weaving machines that they used.
He examined them thoroughly and weaved for himself. At first, the villagers let he do whatever he wanted. But soon they began to think security as being creepy. After all, sec, Eg came every Today and talk to himself while writing down things in his notebook, and didn't even reply, even when the villagers talk to him. Socrates father wanted the key to become an established carpenter, just like him as quickly as possible. So didn't like what's the key he was doing those days.
His father was furious with his interest in looms, and towards the kichi. I can't stand it anymore. You're not doing your job earnestly these days, stop inventing right away. So he apologized. I'm sorry, father, and try to persuade him. But I think I'm almost able to understand how machines work.
If I'm able to do it, there will be less burden on my mother. So Kiki's father was not convinced. He sent the key to another Carpenter in order to try to stop the kichi from inventing He did not give up. However, even at the place he was sent to suck, he drew plans of looms and came back home to actually make them sick. He his father was even more furious and gave him his final word. From today, I am not your father and you're not my son anymore, get out of this house and never come back.
So he left the house and shut himself up in an old heart on a hill at the back of the village. There, he drew plans and made machines to vive every day while sacrificing his sleep. It was a very old heart in winter, wind and snow entered the heart from holes and openings. There was no sto or any heating equipment, but suck he did not give up. However, it was not easy to make what he wanted to. In contrast to his father's fury.
His mother was very supportive. Once a day, she came to Chucky cheese hut and gave him food. He was very encouraged by this. And every time his mother came, he told her, I will one day make an automatic loom, so please wait just a little more. sick he lost weight. Day after day, his cheeks became hollow, and ice glared in 1890 in un or Tokyo, a great exposition commemorating the completion of the Constitution of Japan was being held.
Having found out that many foreign machines were being exhibited. Saki g wanted to go, but he did not have the money to do so. Being at a loss for what to do, he went to his mother for help. Seems like eg his mother stood up and handed him money that she had saved for sick eg even in poverty without saying anything. sick, he was again deeply moved and cried. He was now able to go to the exposition.
Every day from morning until night, he sat in front of a machine and watched and wrote down how the machine was moving. After his experience at the exposition, sucky, he was in higher spirits than ever before. He returned to his hut in his hometown and worked towards his inventions. At last one day, he ran to his house, crying, I did it, mother, come, look what I have invented. Try using it. Suck.
He took his mother to his heart. When she used the machine that's a key he had invented a beautiful cloud. Was Volvo in, the two cried together with happiness. In November of that year, at the age of 23, he finally completed making the Toyota style human powered loom. The machine could weave far more quickly then any machine that existed before. Furthermore, the invention was wonderful in that there was no unevenness in the weaving.
This Toyota style human powered loom began to be used in many parts of Japan with this invention at the starting point, so he continued his inventing for another seven years. In 1897. When he was 30 years old. He finally made Japan's first electric powered loom and obtained a patent for it. In 1910 sock he went to the US to visit many places. factories making looms.
As he returned, he continued improving and refining what he had made so far. Finally, he was able to solve his biggest problem. When the warp snapped, this caused unevenness in the cloth, he altered the machine so that the machine would stop automatically when even one warp snap. And this was the birth of the technique called jidoka automation with human intervention, the electric power looms he had made was the best in the world at that time. This invention became a starting point, and the company began expanding into the Toyota group that it is today. With that we come to the end of this lecture.
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