Toyota’s Vision: Reliability Based on All-Encompassing Continuous Improvement

Mike DaPrile, vice president, Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America
Tuesday, September 1, 8:00 am

Toyota is the face of the successful 21st-century manufacturing company. Fortune named the corporation as No. 3 (behind Apple and Berkshire Hathaway) on its list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. Toyota plants are viewed as role models in terms of lean, reliability, sustainability, safety and asset performance. They truly embody the Reliable Plant. However, even Toyota has encountered some potholes during the recent world economic crisis. In this keynote session, company vice president Mike DaPrile (a 47-year veteran of the global auto industry, including 22 years at Toyota and 25 years at General Motors) will outline Toyota’s present and future direction in the wake of a changing (and challenging) auto manufacturing landscape and illustrate how Toyota is reinvigorating/reinforcing/reinventing itself.