Eiji Toyoda

Eiji Toyoda (1913–2013) was a Japanese industrialist who helped build Toyota Motor Corporation into a global automaker, serving as its president and chairman.

Kiichiro Toyoda: A Japanese industrialist who founded Toyota Motor Corporation and led its early development. Eiji’s cousin founded the company whose expansion he later guided.
Toyota Production System: A manufacturing system that coordinates production through just-in-time flow and continuous problem solving. Eiji supported the organizational conditions in which Toyota’s distinctive production system developed.
Toyota Motor Corporation: A Japanese automaker founded in 1937 that became one of the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers. Eiji spent his career building this company into an international automaker.
Toyota in the United States: The expansion of Toyota’s sales, manufacturing, and corporate presence in the United States. Eiji’s leadership coincided with the strategic push into Toyota’s largest overseas market.
Taiichi Ohno: A Toyota engineer who developed key practices of the Toyota Production System. Ohno’s production innovations took shape under the management Eiji helped establish.
Just-in-time manufacturing: A production approach that supplies items only as they are needed, limiting inventory and delays. This principle became a defining operational feature of the Toyota system built during Eiji’s tenure.
Toyota Automatic Loom Works: A Japanese textile-machinery company founded by Sakichi Toyoda and the corporate predecessor of Toyota’s industrial group. Eiji began his engineering career at the loom works before joining Toyota’s automobile business.
Toyota Corolla: A compact car introduced by Toyota in 1966 that became one of the world’s best-selling nameplates. The Corolla helped carry Toyota’s reputation for practical, reliable cars into international markets.
Shoichiro Toyoda: A Japanese business executive who led Toyota Motor Corporation as president and chairman. Eiji’s son continued the family’s leadership of Toyota.
Kanban: A visual signaling method for controlling the movement and replenishment of work in production. Kanban made the Toyota system’s pull-based production visible on the factory floor.

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