Toyota Considers Moving From "Kaizen" Assembly By Robots To "Kami-Sama" Craftmanship By Hand

While the No.1 automaker in the world has been for a very long time the avid promoter of automation in setting up the pace for auto industry manufacturing prowess, it’s now going back to the roots – humans masters that craft any soulless piece to their will.

In one of Toyota’s oldest plants, one part of it is reserved to humans who took over from robots in sculpting metal pieces into crankshafts. Mitsuru Kawai – a 50 years company veteran – tasked by President Akio Toyoda to promote craftsmanship, says these men are a glimpse of both the future and the past.
 

Agent009 - 4/7/2014 1:21:56 PM

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One might think that a country that values a handcrafted sword as superior to one produced on an assembly line, would have thought of this earlier in the automotive world.

While a robot can do some things better, it shouldn't do everything.

MattDarringer - 4/7/2014 7:23:30 PM

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More bu!!$h!t all posturing no substance