Borrowed a book from WPL last Saterday. The title of the book:
The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota
Finished the first chapter, about history of Nissan and Toyota. Actually passed the first half of the chapter of Nissan.
1 Compared with Nissan, from the right beginning, Toyota founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, was taking and philosophy of eclectic copying/adopting GM, Ford, Chryser and other machinery tool manufacturers of America, making them internally. Toyota copied a V6 Chevrolet engine of GM in 1934 with overhead valve configuration. From the copying work, so called "reverse engineering", Toyota developed experience and capability for subsequent improvement. While Nissan bought a design from Austin with a side mounted valve system. Technologically, this is inferior to overhead valve engine. No body wants to sell you the best technology.
2 Not like Nissan, Toyota was not tying with any advanced Western automaker. It's basically dissembling the vehicles and copied the design.
3 Not like Nissan, Toyota used general purpose machine tools instead of mass-production specialized tools. Totota avoided to use huge stamping presses in order to make the change to product design easier. Since they copied the cars, they were knowing from the beginning that the cars they made would have a lot problems. This philosophy also brings one more benefit - avoid big investment. This is also made shift product easier to accomodate costmer demands shift.
Ok. Too tired. Have go to bed.
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