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03.
28 >Positioned for the Future
Through relentless production engineering innovation, Toyota is
building a lean production system that allows the efficient manu-
facturing of high-quality vehicles anywhere in the world.
PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
INNOVATION
that situation, Toyota must enhance
efficiency dramatically without
sacrificing quality. Meeting that
challenge is one of the main tasks of
production engineering innovation.
Evolving the Ultimate Lean
Production System
Toyota has taken decades to develop
the much-studied Toyota Produc-
tion System, or TPS. By further
evolving TPS, our production engi-
neering innovation aims to establish
the ultimate lean production
system. Locked on to that target,
we are revolutionizing existing
production engineering to achieve
improvements on a different order
of magnitude from anything tried
before.
Supporting Rapidly Expanding
Overseas Production
Toyota’s worldwide consolidated
vehicle production reached 7.23
million units in fiscal 2005—up
approximately 2.2 million vehicles
from five years ago. Further, we
project that by the 2010s ever-
increasing local production will
nearly double the roughly 2.7
million vehicles that we currently
build overseas.
Rocketing output is not the only
challenge. As vehicle manufactur-
ing operations spread over more
countries and regions, the number
of models and vehicle body shapes
is increasing. Therefore, the amount
of work devoted to model change-
overs is mounting rapidly. Given
China’s first locally built Crown luxury sedan
rolled off the line in fiscal 2005. The most
prestigious Toyota-marque vehicle, the Crown is
manufactured at a plant incorporating leading-
edge production equipment and production
engineering.
Fiscal 2005 2010s
Significant
growth
Moderate
growth
Total:
7.23 million
vehicles
Overseas
production
Domestic
production
Domestic
production:
4.53 million
vehicles
Overseas
production:
2.70 million
vehicles
Growth in Global Production Expansion of Overseas Production Bases
1990
1980
9 countries/regions, 11 production bases
14 countries/regions, 20 production bases
2004
26 countries/regions, 51 production bases