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- 1897 - Sakichi Toyoda completes his first automatic loom
Our founder, Sakichi Toyoda, produced his first loom because he wanted to build a better loom than the one his mother was struggling with. It was not in Sakichi’s nature to give up: by 1894, he had invented a yarn winding machine and in 1897 he completed his first automatic loom. Having achieved this, he kept working over the next three decades to improve it. So the concept of Kaizen stems from our earliest days!
- 1918 - Sakichi Toyoda founds Toyoda Spinning and Weaving Co.
When the Japanese economy slumped in 1910, Sakichi Toyoda was forced out of his own company. Despite this serious setback, he recovered and decided to go into the business of producing yarn and weaving cloth, all the while working to perfect his loom. In 1918, Sakichi founds Toyoda Spinning and Weaving Co.
- 1926 - Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. established
In 1926, he established the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd., producing looms that stopped automatically if there was the slightest problem. Their operation was based on Sakichi’s now firmlyestablished manufacturing principles : ‘stop operations automatically whenever anything irregular happens’, ‘never create defective products’, and ‘do not make people constantly watch over machines’. His looms were so successful that in 1929, Sakichi sold the rights to his Type-G automatic loom to Platt Brothers, a huge British textile company, for one million yen!
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