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Toyota’s Plants: Inheritance & Evolution

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A Plant Without Barriers: Co-Creation and Shared Challenges for the Future

Miyoshi Plant has long faced fierce competition as a specialist in chassis components. As major suppliers expand and emerging suppliers in China gain strength, we look at how people across the plant are staying united in spirit and evolving to keep moving forward.

Partnership Kaizen Toyota Production System (TPS)

2026.03.13
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Facing Lost Orders: The Strength That Has Kept This Parts Plant Going

Toyota's Plants: Inheritance & Evolution is a series introducing the history and future vision of individual production facilities. This time, we trace the history of Miyoshi Plant, founded as a machine plant specializing in sub-assemblies for suspension parts and small components, and long exposed to fierce competition.

Kaizen Toyota Production System (TPS) Toyota Group

2026.03.13
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A Workplace for All--How a Focus on People & Skills Drives the Takaoka Plant's Evolution

The Takaoka Plant is home to Toyota's first dedicated BEV production line in Japan. What efforts are being made at the genba to create a working environment welcoming to all?

Make ever-better cars Monozukuri (manufacturing)

2025.12.01
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Takaoka, the Plant That Produced Some of Toyota's Best-Loved Models

Toyota's Plants: Inheritance & Evolution is a series introducing the history and vision behind individual production facilities. This installment explores the history of the Takaoka Plant, built to produce popular cars for the mass market.

Corolla Make ever-better cars Monozukuri (manufacturing)

2025.12.01
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How Automation, Digitalization & Diversity Drive the Kamigo Plant's Evolution

Toyota's Kamigo Plant began operating with state-of-the-art facilities and weighty expectations. Today, what is the plant doing to ensure it will still be making engines a decade from now?

Kaizen Monozukuri (manufacturing)

2025.06.20
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The Kamigo Plant's Efforts to Connect History to the Next Generation

Toyota's Plants: Inheritance & Evolution is a series introducing the history and future vision of individual production facilities. This article shines the spotlight on the company's first engine plant.

Kaizen Oyaji

2025.06.19
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How the Motomachi Plant's Commitment to Evolution Drives Change in Monozukuri & Society

Toyota's Motomachi Plant is embracing an age of diversity by fostering diverse talent. Not satisfied with merely adapting, the plant has set out to be a driver of change.

Monozukuri (manufacturing) Best-in-Town Shoichiro Toyoda

2025.03.07
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Asia's First Passenger Car Plant: The Unique Skills & "Whatever It Takes" Spirit of Motomachi

In the five years since 2020, Toyota's Motomachi Plant has launched 15 different car models. We unravel the plant's history to see how its unique spirit and skills have been passed down to this day.

century Monozukuri (manufacturing) Best-in-Town

2025.02.27
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Nurturing People to Take on Challenges--The Honsha Plant Spirit Lives On

Toyota's Plants: Inheritance & Evolution is a series introducing the history and future vision of individual production facilities. This article focuses on the Honsha Plant's current situation and the challenges it is undertaking for the future.

Monozukuri (manufacturing) Toyota Production System (TPS) Mitsuru Kawai

2024.11.11
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"Making Cars with Japanese Ideas and Skills" The History of Toyota's Honsha Plant

Toyota's Plants: Inheritance & Evolution is a series introducing the history and future vision of individual production facilities. This time we retrace the Honsha Plant's journey since its founding.

Kiichiro Toyoda Best-in-Town Toyota Production System (TPS)

2024.11.08