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The Leaders in the Field of Lean Production
Published in Darina Lepadatu, Thomas Janoski, Framing and Managing Lean Organizations in the New Economy, 2020
Darina Lepadatu, Thomas Janoski
When Soichiro Honda clipped on an engine to his bike, he just wanted to take care of his mobility needs and test his inventive abilities. Stubborn and independent, Honda was a poor student at school and learned to value hands-on innovation, not the traditional schooling (Falloon 2005). What followed was the pursuit of a dream and a moment that “redefined” the US motorcycle industry (Pascale 1996). Founded by Soichiro Honda in 1948, Honda Motor Manufacturing is one of the youngest and most diversified “mobility companies” of the world. Under their logo—“Honda: The Power of Dreams”—the company is selling almost four times more motorcycles than cars, but also a wide range of other products, such as scooters, outboard motors, jet engines and aircraft, as well as lawn equipment, home generators, and even personal robots (however, manufacturing robots in their plants are purchased from suppliers). In fact, Honda defines itself primarily as a producer of engines, which can be applied in many different industries—a bit different from Toyota, which centers itself on automobiles. Toyota has not manufactured motorcycles, and neither have VW, GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Daimler-Benz. Honda’s strategies are already working towards a clearly set corporate vision for the year 2030, which is to “lead the advancement of mobility and enable people everywhere in the world to improve their daily lives” (Global Honda 2018).
Unsupervised Graph-based Discourse Planning and Generation
Published in IETE Technical Review, 2019
Anjali Singh, Niladri Chatterjee
We further study the possible aspects in which the system-generated discourses are lagging behind the human-generated ones. An example human-generated discourse is:Maruti Suzuki, an automotive industry was founded in 1981. Honda, a conglomerate was founded in 1946. While the revenue of Suzuki stands at Rs. 58,612 crore, Honda stands much ahead by having a revenue of 14.60 trillion Japanese Yen. Suzuki is currently managed by its CEO Kenichi Ayukawa while Honda is managed by Takahiro Hachigo.Humans can make more sense out of the data that is given to them while writing text. They are able to make more inferences, use words and phrases absent from the input (e.g. “stands much ahead”). Given the same input, our system can infer only limited information, and hence it generates sentences with only that information. This is a major reason why the scores received by the model generated sentences are not as good as the scores received by the human-generated ones.
The development of autonomous driving technology: perspectives from patent citation analysis
Published in Transport Reviews, 2021
Rico Lee-Ting Cho, John S. Liu, Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho
Honda chose instead to develop independently its own technologies. In contrast, Toyota absorbed knowledge from others (e.g. patents and works with other research institutes). This may lead to the different growth rate of autonomous vehicle development between Honda and Toyota in recent years. Honda also decided to conduct joint research with SenseTime, a China-based IT company with strengths in the area of AI technologies, in 2017 and teamed up with General Motors in a self-driving project, GM Cruise, in 2018.13,14