Toyota's latest standards for lean not good enough

When Toyota opened its newest North American assembly plant in Woodstock, Ontario, last fall, it was chock full of the company’s very latest thinking and innovations for building a car efficiently. But with the global automobile industry mired in its worst crisis in a quarter-century, even Toyota’s latest standards for lean manufacturing are not good enough.

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