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How Toyota Turned Around Its Kentucky Plant: Darril Wilburn on Leadership

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By Mark Graban
| Mark Graban's Lean Blog
Former Toyota team member Darril Wilburn, co-author with Hiro Yoshiki of Courage, Humility, Kaizen: The Three Disciplines of Toyota Leadership, tells the inside story of how Toyota's Georgetown, Kentucky plant went from needing to build almost 90% of its capacity just to break even to a much healthier 60%. We talk about the andon cord myth, “healthy paranoia,” why VPs were sent back to redo their A3s, and why the goal was never to do TPS for its own sake.
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Day November 4, 2026

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By Mark Graban
| Mark Graban's Lean Blog
Former Toyota team member Darril Wilburn, co-author with Hiro Yoshiki of Courage, Humility, Kaizen: The Three Disciplines of Toyota Leadership, tells the inside story of how Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky plant went from needing to build almost 90% of its capacity…
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Toyota’s AI Welding Robot: Jidoka Meets Deming’s Funnel Experiment

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By Mark Graban
| Mark Graban's Lean Blog
Toyota's history of building quality into the process goes back more than a century, long before the company started making cars. Now, a new AI welding robot developed by Toyota's GAZOO Racing division and Yaskawa Electric offers an interesting evolution of that principle. The robot can reportedly recognize welding conditions, make adjustments, inspect its work, and correct problems without requiring a skilled welder to intervene every time. That's impressive technology.
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