TOKYO -- For five years as Toyota's global manufacturing boss, the quest for kaizen-- or continuous improvement -- was the mantra for Takeshi Uchiyamada. But when he became chief of r&d last year, he ...

With some simple yet effective techniques, here's how Toyota perfected the process of building the most reliable and dependable cars on the road ...

CHICAGO - The cascading crisis at Toyota Motor Corp stemming from the massive recall of some of its vehicles is prompting other manufacturers that adopted its production system to ask whether the ...

Toyota decided to donate its engineers to the Food Bank for New York City, finding ways to improve its efficiency with “kaizen,” a Japanese word for continuous improvement. The Japanese automaker’s ...

Toyota doesn’t expect to begin producing batteries at its new factory in Randolph County until 2025, but the company has already begun hiring the people who will make them. The first group of new ...

The cascading crisis at Toyota Motor Corp. stemming from the massive recall of some of its vehicles is prompting other manufacturers that adopted its production system to ask whether the incident ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The cascading crisis at Toyota Motor Corp stemming from the massive recall of some of its vehicles is prompting other manufacturers that adopted its production system to ask ...