Works
- Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-yoke System, Productivity Press, English edition, 1986
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A Japanese industrial engineer who worked with Toyota and is known for single-minute exchange of dies and for poka-yoke, simple devices that make a mistake impossible or detect it at once. In Zero Quality Control he argued for inspecting at the source, catching errors before they become defects.