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Toyota brings 'kaizen' production philosophy to Japan's ailing farms
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From Nikkei:
There are two main parts to the system:
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What does one of the world's leading automakers have in common with a farm in the countryside? Quite a bit, as it turns out.
Toyota Motor has brought its successful kaizen philosophy, which focuses on continuous improvements in efficiency, to agriculture. The company launched its Hosaku Keikaku service -- meaning a plan for a bountiful harvest -- in 2014, and it has spread to 90 farms across the country.
It could be key to helping Japan's aging farmers in the face of a severe labor shortage.
There are two main parts to the system:
- A cloud-based system in which workers collect data about individual fields and rice paddies using smartphones.
- Toyota employees coming to farms and identifying practices that are wasteful or inefficient.
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