Shigeo Shingo
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Oct 13, 2026
Chris BradleyHOST
It's the rational answer to set up cost.
Chris BradleyHOST
Factories batched for exactly the same reason until people like Shigeo Shingo spent years driving the time to change over a machine from hours to minutes.
Chris BradleyHOST
Once changeover was cheap, small batches became economical.
Chris BradleyHOST
Here's the part that matters for the eugenic era.
Sam YankelevitchGUEST
from you know from the catalogs that used to come you know written you know printed catalogs you know there was no amazon there was no book you know there's no online so i ordered a bunch of books and with the books i would go out to the plant uh with the engineers and uh and try things that were in the books these books were coming from a lot of the japanese authors that were working through the Toyota production system days.
Sam YankelevitchGUEST
You know, the Shigeo Shingo, Masaaki Imai, and I still have many of those books here.
Sam YankelevitchGUEST
So we just would open up a book, I would read it, we would study it with some of the engineers in the plant, and then we would go out and try stuff.
Sam YankelevitchGUEST
And those were, you know, some... interesting leadership lessons to be able to think as a group, go out there and not be afraid to try something different to improve how things were working out.