Nampachi Hayashi
Nampachi Hayashi joined Toyota Motor Company in 1966 and is one of the last direct protégés of Taiichi Ohno. He served as a senior technical executive of Toyota, and from 2009, has sat on the company’s board of directors. He is a member of the “Productivity Improvement Citizens Advancement Council” advanced by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is well-known around the world for his humor and liveliness to explain the essence of the Toyota Production System (TPS) as it applies to various industries.
Influences
Influenced
- Akio Toyoda
- Freddy Balle
Videos
Toyota Production System and The Roots of Lean
Additional Resources
- A Brief History of Kaizen: The Key Players– creativesafetysupply.com
- Lean Manufacturing– lean-news.com
- Janet Froetscher Discusses Workplace Safety– blog.creativesafetysupply.com
- The Lean Manager– blog.5stoday.com
- The History of Kanban– creativesafetypublishing.com
- What is Lean manufacturing?– iecieeechallenge.org
- Jishuken 101– kaizen-news.com
- What’s in a Name: Defining Terms in Lean Manufacturing– 5snews.com