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Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉, Toyoda Sakichi, March 19 (the 14th of the 2nd month in East Asian Lunar Calendar), 1867 – October 30, 1930) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist. He was born in Kosai, Shizuoka. The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies.
Toyota Industries Corporation was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda to manufacture and sell the automatic looms which he had invented. Since then Toyota Industries has diversified and expanded the scope of its business domains to include textile machinery
Kiichiro Toyoda was the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation and the automotive centered Toyota Group. Kiichiro used the spirit of invention and the business base inherited from his father Sakichi Toyoda to expand into the automotive business and build the foundation of today's Toyota Group.
Dec 17, 2010 · In keeping with our series of honoring those that came before us and, on which shoulders we stand, today we’ll revisit the life of Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of the eventual Toyota Motor Corporation.
Sakichi Toyoda, the Japanese industrialist, inventor, and founder of Toyota Industries, developed the 5 Whys technique in the 1930s. It became popular in the 1970s, and Toyota still uses it to solve problems today.
Sakichi Toyoda: inventor of Japan’s first power loom, the Type G automatic loom and the original circular loom; founder of the Toyota Group; and a major contributor to the development and modernization of Japan’s machine industries.
Sakichi Toyoda was born in this area in 1867 (also known as the 3rd year of the Keio period in the Japanese calendar). In 1890, he came across a foreign-made loom at an industrial exhibition in Tokyo. Sakichi shortly thereafter invented a human-powered wooden loom in what was to be known as the "Toyota-style."
Toyota Industries Corporation was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda to manufacture and sell the automatic looms which he had invented and perfected. Since that time Toyota Industries has promoted diversification and expanded the scope of its business domains to include textile machinery, automobiles (vehicles, engines, car air-conditioning ...
Jan 25, 2017 · Paul Akers, host of The American Innovator, shares the story of Sakichi Toyoda, often referred to as the father of the Japanese industrial revolution, and the founder of Toyota Industries....
Nov 13, 2023 · Sakichi Toyoda (1867 – 1930) was a Japanese inventor, industrialist and the founder of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd. Sakichi Toyoda revolutionized the textiles industry in Japan. He is sometimes called the Japanese Thomas Edison.
