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Posted on 2017 September 10 by polgarp · Tagged in Toyota, Manufacturing, and Job automation
Original link: https://www.fastcompany.com/40461624/how-toyota-is-putting-humans-first-in-an-era-of-increasing-automation
Fascinating read on Toyota’s recent changes to their manufacturing process especially the application of lean to using robots. Many interesting points here, like how people improving their own work processes are much like designers. But the most interesting part is how Toyota keeping the knowledge of handcrafting with their workers. This eliminates a huge concern in job automation, that newly appointed robot overseers don’t understand what their robots do, if they didn’t learn the craft by themselves.