Shigeo Shingo and his Revolutionary SMED
A Revolution in Manufacturing. It is rightly said “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”. This is what led Dr. Shigeo Shingo, a manufacturing expert who served as consultant in TOYOTA and several other Japanese Companies and is widely known as the father of Toyota production, to think of a methodology that can reduce, if not totallyeliminate, any wastage in the manufacturing process.
