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Dr. Shigeo Shingo with Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Taiichi Ohno are probably the four greatest manufacturing minds in the last 100 years. Dr. Shingo was born in 1909 in Saga City, Japan, graduated from Saga Technical High School and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yamanashi Technical College and received an honorary doctorate degree from Utah State University. He taught more than 3,000 Toyota engineers in the principles stated in this new book Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking — The Scientific Thinking Mechanism.
Dr. Shingo authored over 20 books, six in English:
- A Study of the Toyota Production System
- Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System
- Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System
- The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies for Plant Improvement
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Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement
- The Shingo Production Management System: Improving Process Functions
He died in 1990, one week after his last consulting assignment. We should all be indebted to Dr. Shingo for helping to improve the world’s manufacturing processes.