Anyone who has an interest and/or career in manufacturing would have heard of Kaizen, generally a concept to continuously improve your process everywhere. Under that huge umbrella is Karakuri Kaizen, ...

Employees at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) facility in Cambridge, Ont. don’t go straight to work after they are hired. First, they’re trained in TMMC’s Global Production Centre using ...

The word karakuri, which can also mean “subtle trickery,” is derived from the verb karakuru, meaning to “pull, stretch, and move a thread,” and a karakuri automaton is a dual feat of art and ...