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The ‘Father of Lean Manufacturing’, Taiichi Ohno (78), died

Monday 28th May 1990

The ‘Father of Lean Manufacturing’, Taiichi Ohno (78), died. He devised the seven wastes (or muda in Japanese) as part of this system and wrote several books about the system, including Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production.

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