Taiichi Ohno 1912 to 1990 was the creator of the Toyota Production System. He graduated from Nagoya Technical High School, and joined, Toyota's spinning and weaving in 1932. In 1943, he transferred to Toyota Motor Company. By 1947. He managed the machine shop, where he experimented with parallel lines and L shaped processes. Of course, there was much resistance from the machine operators.

Since he was from the weaving company, he was aware of jidoka automation with a human touch and use it productively in the auto company. Some sample techniques of the Toyota Production System that Ohno and his team developed included full system, Buddha, quick die changes Flexible job assignments, removing non value added work. Can band methods, U shaped sales, one piece flow production leveling