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We need to develop a long-term jidoka strategy that will support our
long-term Lean production implementation strategy. Future directions are
suggested for jidoka development.
Endnotes
1. Toyota Motor Corporation, Operations Management Consulting Division, The
Toyota Production System (Tokyo, 1995).
2. Shigeo Shingo, Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-yoke
System (New York: Productivity Press, 1986).
3. Ibid.
4. Shingo initially introduced the word baka-yoke, which means foolproof, but
then changed it to avoid a negative connotation for workers.
5. Shigeo Shingo, Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-yoke
System (New York: Productivity Press, 1986).
6. N