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How Cars Changed The World & What's Going On In Your Unconscious Mind?

Something You Should Know

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Ford's Production System - The Fordian System

In the 60s, when Japanese cars started showing up in the U.S., it was a time when American cars seemed to be suffering from a lack of quality. So what happened there? There was a brilliant, brilliant Japanese engineer called Teichi Ono. He developed a new production system based on Ford and General Motors systems. But he would say you had to have the new car. And people saw their neighbors had the new car, they went out and bought themselves. The problem was that Americans were resistant to non Detroit cars or non American cars as generally.

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