{"id":19386,"date":"2010-02-05T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=19386"},"modified":"2010-02-05T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:17:25","slug":"akio-toyoda-forms-global-quality-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2010\/02\/akio-toyoda-forms-global-quality-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Akio Toyoda forms \u201cGlobal Quality Task Force\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14242\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Toyota-at-Tokyo-2009-Akio-Toyoda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14242\" title=\"Toyota at Tokyo 2009, Akio Toyoda\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Toyota-at-Tokyo-2009-Akio-Toyoda-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Toyota-at-Tokyo-2009-Akio-Toyoda-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Toyota-at-Tokyo-2009-Akio-Toyoda-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Toyota-at-Tokyo-2009-Akio-Toyoda-398x263.jpg 398w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Toyota-at-Tokyo-2009-Akio-Toyoda.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scion of the founding Toyoda family, will oversee  \u201cimprovement initiatives.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President, announced this morning at its Nagoya, Japan, headquarters that he is forming a global quality special task force that will conduct regional quality improvement activities.<\/p>\n<p>North American journalists were not invited to participate in the news conference and Toyota is not making available a transcript or audio replay of what was said. Only a terse press release is available, from which this report is formed.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, headed by the scion of the founding Toyoda family, will conduct various \u201cimprovement initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First among them is the claim, apparently made by Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki, that Toyota will verify the causes that led to several controversial and ongoing recalls.\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Toyota will also enhance the customer information research offices to improve regional information collection and \u201cgenchi-genbutsu\u201d or \u201cgo and see for yourself\u201d activities.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota said in the\u00a0 release that it would establish an \u201cAutomotive Center of Quality Excellence\u201d in key regions.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota will also seek confirmation and evaluation from \u201coutside experts\u201d of its newly improved quality-control management.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Toyota said it will work to increase the frequency of communication between itself and regional authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President, announced this morning at its Nagoya, Japan, headquarters that he is forming a global quality special task force that will conduct regional quality improvement activities.<\/p>\n<p>North American journalists were not invited to participate in the news conference and Toyota is not making available a transcript or audio replay of what was said. Only a terse press release is available, from which this report is formed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":14242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19386"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=19386"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=19386"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=19386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}