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1867 February 14, Akio Toyoda, the founder of Toyota, was born in a village in Huxi City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan today. His father Akio Toyoda works as a carpenter in addition to farming. From a very small

At that time, under the influence of his strong-willed and confident father, Zuo Ji set the goal of always challenging himself with unyielding spirit and never forgetting to give back to the society with gratitude.

Faith, which has been accompanied by Zuo Ji's life since then.

After graduating from primary school, George began to learn carpentry with his highly skilled father. Although he didn't dislike the job, George was born after seeing the poor life of people around him.

I have an idea that I must do great things in the future.

1885, the new meiji government of Japan promulgated the patent licensing regulations to protect new inventions through laws. Knowing this rule, young George decided to devote his life.

To create a career of invention. However, despite his lofty ideals, Zuo Ji did not know where to start without professional knowledge education.

Zuo Ji's hometown is famous for its rich kapok since ancient times. Many families take weaving as a sideline, and Zuo Ji's family is no exception. Zuo Ji witnessed her mother's hard work after busy farming every day since she was a child.

Weaving, "this kind of work efficiency is really too low." After visiting factories and expositions in Tokyo and getting a preliminary understanding of western mechanical civilization, the filial Georgi began to think, "Is it possible?"

In order to improve the loom and reduce the hard work of mothers and other women like mothers. "From then on, he was determined to invent a convenient and efficient power loom and began to walk endlessly.

The road to invention.

As the saying goes, "everything is difficult at the beginning", but a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Zuo Ji understands that it is impossible to suddenly step into the realm of invention and creation without receiving any systematic knowledge and professional technical training.

Yes, so he decided to start by improving the loom around him. However, George's father thinks that it is impossible for people without learning to make inventions, and his father's opposition and research funds are insufficient.

Shortage makes the road to invention full of thorns. Finally, in 1890, Zuo successfully invented the Toyota-style humanoid loom and obtained the first patent in his life. This loom will improve the efficiency of knitting.

The yield is increased by 40% ~ 50%, which greatly reduces the uneven parts in the fabric and improves the quality of the fabric. However, despite George's confidence in his work, the sales of this loom are not optimistic.

As far as people are concerned, it seems that only the improvement of this procedure can not meet people's requirements. From then on, in order to further improve the working efficiency of the loom, George began to move in the direction of inventing the power loom.

Although he has been suffering from lack of development funds, Zuoji continues to stick to his invention work. Neighbors of villagers in the village ignored Zuo Ji's behavior and sneered at him, calling him a "madman".

, or "Iggy's Sleeper". In such a difficult environment, after six years' efforts, after the first invention in 1890, 1896, Satoshi finally succeeded in inventing in Japan.

The first power loom-the wood-iron hybrid loom, and the performance of the machine has been widely recognized by the society. It is no longer a myth that an employee operates 3-4 machines at the same time. The success of the new loom made it difficult.

The dynamic efficiency is improved by more than 20 times. There are a constant stream of people visiting Zuoji loom factory, including many government officials. At that time, Japanese Prime Minister Nohiro Otani inspired the second from left.

"Invention is a smarter job than foreigners, so don't lose to them if you do it well", and give each employee a red envelope as a reward. At the age of 32, Satoshi became a Japanese servant.

Celebrity.

After that, George continued his research. 190 1 year, he invented the warp shuttle feeding device. This device can always send the weft with the same force, which solved the problem of experts at that time.

An intractable problem. In addition, at that time, the loom had to stop for manual yarn loading when the weft yarn was used up, which seriously affected the working efficiency of the loom. Therefore, George's goal is to

The invention of automatic weft filling device. 1903, the first automatic shuttle changing device was invented successfully. George's unremitting efforts laid the foundation for the birth of the famous Toyota automatic loom in the future.

A solid foundation.

Zhongyuan textile company, which has been paying attention to George's automatic shuttle changing device, proposed to buy this patent and install it on other companies' power looms, and compared its performance with the first-class looms in Europe and America.

Experiment. Although George disapproved of entrusting loom production to others, at the strong request of Zhongyuan Textile Company, George finally failed to refuse.

Sure enough, as Zuo Ji expected, the one-year experiment failed to achieve satisfactory results. Through reflection on this matter, George concluded that "unless he completed a coherent whole experiment."

Otherwise, we can't let the world realize its true value. This thought ran through Zuo Ji's life and was carried out in many loom inventions in the future. To this day, the whole world.

Toyota Group's companies around the world still inherit this important legacy of George.

19 10 from may to the following year 1 June, Zuo Ji's trip to Europe and America not only enhanced his understanding of the situation in Europe and America, but also enhanced his confidence in the loom he invented. After returning home, left

Kyrgyzstan once again began to raise the invention of automatic looms to a new level. Moreover, through this trip, the increasingly popular European and American cars made Zuo Ji deeply feel that "the future is the era of cars!" .

Soon, a large number of imported cars were active in the reconstruction stage after the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923). Because of this, Zuo Er felt more strongly the importance of producing Japanese cars, and then decided to drive.

The wish to send a domestic car was entrusted to the eldest son Ichiro.

After many twists and turns, 1924, the Toyota automatic loom (G loom) with automatic shuttle change without stopping was finally born. This loom combines Toyota's unique wisdom everywhere, but

In order to constantly change new shuttles at high speed, the British company Pratt, which was in the leading position in the world textile industry at that time, was praised as a "magic machine" and hoped to buy this one.

Patents. 1929, the two companies reached a franchise agreement, and Toyota automatic loom was truly recognized all over the world.

At that time, the patent of Toyota automatic loom was as high as 654.38 million pounds. Cong gave the money to his eldest son, Ichiro, and said to him with anticipation, "Learn to drive well", which became the determination of Ichiro.

The beginning of the car.

About his father, George Akio Toyoda wrote: "When I argued with my father about a certain issue, I won. At that time, I thought there was no actual attempt. But because of my father, I have to tell the truth.

After an international operation, I got a happy ending far beyond my expectation, so I changed the habit of discussing everything before. ""My father is not clever, but he is diligent. "

Yes, it's beyond our power. "As Ichiro said,' Do it first' and' Don't be afraid of failure' are the mantra of Zuo Er, and he is doing it himself.

Yes The first step of development is to have a complete idea, try it first, and don't expect to make something perfect from the beginning. If deficiencies are found and need to be improved in time, pass or not.

Break the improvement and keep improving. -That's George's behavior.

From an early age, Zuo Ji thought that the ideal loom should be a circular loom, and he kept a keen interest in it. On a common loom, all parts of the loom always work intermittently.

I want to connect all the homework and make it an endless job, so as to put an end to the waste of electricity. However, there are many difficult lessons in practice.

Title. Although Zuo Ji began to invent the circular loom very early and obtained the original patent of the circular loom in 1908, he has been constantly improving his invention since then, but this is very rare.

Unfortunately, Zuo Ji finally failed to see the final completion of the circular loom. 1930 In May, 63-year-old Zuo Ji died of illness. Now this circular loom is displayed at the entrance of Toyota Industrial Technology Memorial Hall.

This place symbolizes "imagination and research spirit" and "the importance of production and creation".

Akio Toyoda won more than 200 patents at home and abroad in his life, which not only promoted the development of Japanese textile mechanization, but also made great contributions to the development and modernization of the machinery industry.

Contribution. The enterprises founded by Zuo Zhi laid a solid foundation for the formation of many Toyota Group enterprises such as Toyota Textile Company, Toyota Automatic Loom Factory and Toyota Motor Corporation. After Satoshi's spirit

Later, it was formulated by Ichiro (1935) as the "Toyota Plan", which has been formulated by various companies in the Toyota Group.

Under the influence of his father Satoshi, Akio Toyoda liked machinery, especially cars, since he was a child. When he was in college, he chose mechanical manufacturing as his major. After graduating from college, Ichiro had an opportunity.

I visited Europe and America for ten months and witnessed the development of automobile industry and the popularization of automobiles, which was deeply touched. Ichiro firmly believed that "Japan absolutely needs the automobile industry in the future".

The situation that GM and Ford completely monopolize the Japanese automobile market has caused Kiichiro to think deeply. "If we can't develop the domestic automobile industry and realize the mass production of domestic automobiles, the people's

The quality of life will never really improve. "

1927, Akio Toyoda is 33 years old. Akio Toyoda was praised for his contribution to the country in developing textile machinery and received by the Emperor. When he got home at night, he was very happy with his son.

Ichiro said: "I made money myself and made contributions to the country. Now it's your turn! Build a car and serve the motherland! " His father's request was completely consistent with Ichiro's dream, which strengthened his desire.

The determination to make Toyota cars. Since then, Ichiro has embarked on a difficult and brilliant road of "developing and manufacturing Japanese cars".

Although the road to entrepreneurship is full of difficulties and obstacles, as the old China saying goes, "Where there is a will, there is a way." Akio Toyoda built a car, which laid the foundation for Toyota Motor Corporation.

And pointed out the direction of the company's development. Because of this, he is honored as "the father of domestic cars" in Japan.

There is a banner hanging in the hall of Akio Toyoda's hometown, which has never been taken down. It says in seven big letters, "Endure a thousand times and forge everything." This sentence means in Japanese and Chinese: Are you tough?

Pull it out, temper it, and you will achieve something.

From the age of 24, Ichiro dreamed of "producing thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of cars, so that all cars on the roads in Japan are Toyota cars".

However, just as George was not understood in those years, Kiichiro's idea of creating and producing cars was also opposed by other Toyota family elders. "Car manufacturing is very expensive, even like

Big chaebols like Mitsui and Mitsubishi dare not try it easily. Compared with them, Toyota is just a small chaebol who is a little famous in Nagoya. "

Staring at the banner of "endure a thousand hardships and get everything done", Ichiro fell into deep meditation. Father Akio Toyoda's experience of inventing the automatic textile machine came to mind, "In order to get rid of poverty and break through life."

Living with heavy shackles, my father embarked on the road of invention and creation, which was full of thorns. In order to change the situation that foreign looms monopolize the Japanese market, my father insisted on invention and improvement, and finally succeeded.

And realize the exit. "

"The same is true of the automobile industry. As long as you stick to your beliefs and go forward bravely, you will certainly be able to rush out of a road to success. We must build our own automobile industry! "

Ideal is ambition. Step by step, we should turn idealization into reality and ambition into achievement. Akio Toyoda's goal is to catch up with Ford and General Motors.

Catch up with the goal and strive to build cars of the same level as those assembled by these two Japanese companies. He emphasized that "Toyota's cars must conform to the specific situation in Japan".

Words must be done, and actions must be fruitful. Akio Toyoda did it. From making plans, recruiting talents, raising funds, buying land and building factories, to designing, manufacturing, testing, summarizing and improving, and finally to the group.

When the car was assembled, he personally participated in it and "worked together" with designers, engineers and skilled workers. His subordinates, friends, and engineer Okajiro who participated in the trial production from the beginning were all exposed later.

Showing his heart, he said, "If Kiichiro says he will do it, he will definitely do it. If Ichiro does it, he will succeed. No matter how difficult it is, I will risk my life to build a domestic car with Ichiro.

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Until the death of 1952, Akio Toyoda led Akio Toyoda to forge ahead on the road of manufacturing Japanese cars, and successively developed the A-type six-cylinder in-line automobile engine.

A 1 car, AA car, AB four-door convertible station wagon. Although it is Ichiro's dream to produce cars, Toyota also produced many trucks according to the needs of the times at that time, which can be described as fruitful.

Tired.

Automobile is a complex product integrating machinery, electrical appliances, casting, calendering, power and other technologies, and it is a synthesis of steel, electronics, rubber, glass, plastics and other industries.

Products. It is also closely related to aesthetics. Cars are also works of art, which can't be done by one person alone. They need collective command and collective labor.

Toyoda Shoichiro deeply understands this truth. On the anniversary of the launch of 1 in 0936, he published an article in the company's official magazine "Toyota News", pointing out: "Cars have made it what it is today.

This is beyond the personal interest of a technician. It was born after many people painstakingly studied and concentrated all aspects of knowledge, and after years of hard work and repeated failures. "

1937, that is, when Toyota Motor Corporation was building a large factory in its home town, Ichiro Toyoda wrote a booklet entitled "Foundation and Organization of Toyota Motor Corporation", in which

The sample describes, "A car needs thousands of parts. Without any of them, you can't build a complete car. It's not easy to put all these together. If you can't do it completely

Control, then, even if the parts pile up like a mountain, you can't build a car. In this passage, he said that "complete control" is an important content, that is, designing and manufacturing cars.

The required experts, technicians and even workers are gathered together, and Qi Xin is also working together for the same goal.

As the China proverb says, "When people gather firewood, the flames are high." It is by gathering the strength of all experts, technicians and workers that Akio Toyoda established a car factory and made cars.

Real domestic cars.

In order to realize his ideas, Akio Toyoda began to make preparations from a very young age. In addition to visiting Professor Kensuke, an automobile expert at the University of Tokyo, Ichiro also widely

Collect all kinds of information from other students and start the research on cars. In addition, he pays attention to cultivating talents who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of automobile development and manufacturing in the future, such as Iwaoka Jiro and Shirai Takeshi.

While appointing new employees, Ichiro has also made great efforts in introducing high-performance mechanical equipment and on-site training of technicians.

In addition, Toyoda Shoichiro also hired Kan Long Jun and Ikemura, who have experience in automobile manufacturing, and obtained automobile research scholars from Tokyo University and Sendai University, such as Shiro Bashan and Masao Chengshu.

The work of developing and manufacturing automobiles is carried out step by step.

Ichiro set out to build a mass production factory in the early days of automobile manufacturing, actively created his own independent sales network, and at the same time devoted himself to cultivating underdeveloped zero.

Parts industry and related industries. In this way, Kiichiro has made continuous progress and set the goal of covering the automobile industry extensively.

1938, 1 1 year1October, the parent factory of Toyota Motor Corporation with a monthly output of 500 cars and 1500 trucks was officially completed, which was beyond Japan's imagination at that time. At the completion ceremony, all the employees wore new work clothes.

Excitement and happiness are beyond words. Akio Toyoda solemnly swore on behalf of everyone that he would devote himself to the establishment of the Japanese automobile industry. He emphasized that "unity will generate great strength. We didn't.

It can make the whole factory's efforts go to waste because of one person's negligence. "

Akio Toyoda deserves to be the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation and the "father of domestic cars" in Japan. His entrepreneurial spirit, research spirit and practical spirit are always worth learning by future generations.

Akio Toyoda's contribution to Toyota is not only that he built Japanese-made cars, but also that he laid the foundation for Toyota's future development.

Nowadays, Toyota's "rationalization proposal" system is widely known all over the world, which plays a vital role in improving the quality of Toyota cars and keeping Toyota at the forefront of the world automobile industry. This one

The initial form of the system is a reward system for employees' active inventions, which is stipulated in the employment principle formulated in June 1938+0 1. Akio Toyoda is very interested in this system.

Moreover, with the progress of technology and the development of the company, this system is constantly popularizing and perfecting, and it is still developing forward until today. Akio Toyoda respects the opinions of front-line employees and often

I will ask them for advice on improving their work.

1951may, Toyota formally formulated the "mention incentive-suggestion system". The significance of this system is not limited to collecting business-related inventions, because every employee can

You can freely put forward various suggestions on any problem, so it has also achieved good results in strengthening employees' participation consciousness and improving employees' labor enthusiasm. This system has been implemented for six years.

For more than ten years, with the strong support of employees, the number of proposals has always remained huge, and its most important direct role is to understand that employees in the front line of production are more committed to improving each one.

Since working, Toyota has been able to keep moving forward.

Made a good car, if you can't sell it, it's meaningless. Kiichiro, who aims to build Japanese cars, looks at the automobile industry in the United States and Europe and combines the actual situation in Japan.

I realized very early: "it is difficult to build a car, and it is even harder to sell it." Because, as early as the twenties and thirties of this century, Ford and General Motors in the United States have spread all over Japan.

Their respective sales networks. Kiichiro is determined to build Toyota's sales network. He began to look for ways to open domestic sales and establish market share for Toyota, which has just been put into production.

Want to choose a person. After many twists and turns, he finally found it This man is Masataro of Shengu.

Kamiya was then the deputy director of the sales and public relations department of General Motors Osaka Branch. 1935, Akio Toyoda invited Kamiya to Toyota, entrusted him with a heavy responsibility and awarded him a high academic degree.

Trust, "the sales are all yours, please set about establishing the sales organization at once." Kamiya has a long-standing love for Akio Toyoda's "building Japanese-made cars with Japanese hands"

Encouraged by China's oath, after joining Toyota, he used his rich experience to put forward the idea of "establishing a sales company in a county" and made it come true. Manufacture and

Sales complement each other, which is the secret of Toyota's longevity.

In postwar Japan, the economy was depressed, the society was chaotic, and people's lives were very difficult. In this context, Toyota's operation has also encountered unprecedented difficulties. At the end of 1949, the company urgently needed about 200 million days.

Yuan's liquidity for the New Year has reached the point where it is difficult to operate. Ji Ichiro personally came forward to negotiate with the bank, hoping to provide financing to solve the urgent need.

Urgent. Although the bank promised to help, it had one condition, that is, to "fundamentally rebuild Toyota Motor Corporation", and proposed "reconstruction" at the beginning of the following year (1950).

Bill. "Among them, the two most important points directly related to the immediate interests of Toyota operators and all employees are" separating the sales company "and" reducing redundant personnel ".

Jiichiro can reluctantly accept the first condition, but he really doesn't want the second condition to come true. A long time ago, he announced to the company's top management that he would not lay off employees. Because of this.

The seriousness of national development is beyond imagination. The trade union, which has always been vigilant, believes that "the company must lay off employees" and began the struggle on April 7.

Toyota is faced with a dilemma, neither wanting to give up its commitment to employees nor giving up the opportunity to rebuild the company. After repeated research and careful consideration, the company published a report, including "improvement"

1600 employees who voluntarily resigned. Seeking the cooperation of trade unions, Ji Ichiro said, "There are only two ways to tide over the difficulties: either dissolve the company or hire some."

People got off the Toyota boat. I'm really sorry, it's the responsibility of our senior cadres that things have come to this point. "

Trade unions have the obligation to safeguard the lives and interests of trade union members, and the negotiations with the company are always inconsistent, and the two sides are deadlocked. During this period, Toyota's output plummeted.

The company accumulates huge losses every day, and the bank also asserts that it will refuse to provide financing in the future. In order to break this deadlock, Ichiro resolutely decided to resign, hoping to borrow

This helped Toyota come back to life. On June 5th, he announced his resignation as the general manager of the company and took the initiative to take on what he called "the responsibility of senior cadres". Since then, 65,438+0,700 employees have voluntarily resigned, exceeding

The company raised a large number of people 100. Toyota later helped these employees who voluntarily resigned to work in other enterprises.

On June 10, the two-month strike finally ended and Toyota resumed normal production. In July, Ishida, general manager of Toyota Automatic Loom Manufacturing Co., Ltd., stepped down as general manager of Toyota from Akio Toyoda.

Manager, he announced at the shareholders' meeting: "When the company's performance improves, I will return the position of general manager to Ichiro." Akio Toyoda dared to establish Toyota Motor Corporation and resolutely resign.

He went to the position of general manager precisely because of his love for automobile manufacturing, and also to stick to his ideal of "making domestic cars". His behavior has made great contributions to Toyota. Worked in Toyota for more than 60 years.

In history, this was the only strike, which taught both employers and employees a lesson: share weal and woe, unite as one!

After Ji Ichiro resigned, he continued to devote himself to the research he loved, and at that time he was already suffering from severe hypertension. Although the doctor repeatedly told him to rest at ease, he still

Insisting on the study of diseases, his spirit of struggle deeply touched everyone around him.

Toyoda Shoichiro, who became the general manager of Toyota Motor Corporation in 1980s, wrote in an article recalling his father Ichiro: "My father has always cherished ideals. His ultimate ideal is to build a helicopter.

Machine. In his mind, there are many flat-topped houses in every city, and the flat roof is the apron of the helicopter. People can fly to their roofs and board their helicopters.

Go anywhere. He believes that this dream will come true in the near future. "This passage vividly depicts the mental outlook of Kiichiro's endless life and research, just like his unremitting research on himself.

The explanation of the situation is the same: "The root of people's efforts is enthusiasm. It can be said that enthusiasm is endless motivation. "

On the other hand, after successfully rebuilding Toyota, Takezo Ishida resolutely fulfilled his promise to Toyota's shareholders' meeting: please come out of the mountain and take up the post of general manager again. Company reservation

1July, 952, JiYiLang returned to the post of general manager.

Seiichiro seized the time before July, in addition to studying daily topics, he also went to Tokyo to visit relatives and friends and visit relevant government departments, and at the same time wrote down memories of his father's performance and developed a steam engine himself.

Memoirs of a car trip. Reminiscent of the life invented by sages, Ichiro thought of his father's pure education, "don't just inherit his father's career", "hopeless" and "revitalize Japan"

The development of automobile industry, while achieving success, is more important to serve the country. "He reviewed the road he had traveled, from the successful trial production of automobile engines to A 1 cars and then to AA cars.

Cars, to the establishment of Toyota Motor Corporation ... Looking back suddenly, my life track is so similar to my father's life, and I think, research, invent, create and start a business every day.

Through it. He believes that this kind of life is the most precious and valuable, and it must be "handed down from generation to generation, passed down from generation to generation, and continued endlessly."

Due to the excitement of returning to the important position of general manager, the fatigue of running around and the desk work of writing reminiscence articles, Kiichiro's hypertension increased unconsciously.

Suddenly, he felt dizzy, his hands and feet were out of control, and his mouth was speechless. At this point, his heart is very clear: high blood pressure attack! His heart is as calm as water, and many cars appear in front of him.

Images of high-speed driving. One by one, these cars quickly circled around the circular runway, whirring, whirring, whirring ... Lightning repeated this action in circles, "Ah! this is me

Our car is running! "

Toyoda Shoichiro finally fainted, lost his mind and never opened his eyes again. On March 27th, he sailed the crane westward, at the age of 57. Two years later, all Toyota employees presented a Toyota.

The bust of Ichiro, built in front of the Toyota Motor Corporation building, will always commemorate the Japanese "father of domestic cars".