It looks like the Aichi Camrys are built in the Tsutsumi plant, not Tahara. But that's good too. The Prius is also built in Tsutsumi.
From a maximum reliability perspective, would you buy the Georgetown, Kentucky Camry or the Tsutsumi Camry?
Darn, having a little trouble finding out how many Camrys are built in Tsutsumi...
Hmmm, it looks like there aren't any Siennas built in Japan at all, but there is something called the "Sienta" (with a "t") built at the Takaoka plant. No Avalons built in Japan either, according to the chart I'm consulting.
IMO, the longevity of the Camrys assembled in Tsutsumi and Georgetown are going to be pretty much the same. I've driven 30 or 40 of each and cannot tell the difference.
What difference does the number assembled in Tsutsumi make?
The Sienna and Avalon were designed for the U.S. market and are not sold in Japan.
As I have already said, we did expect you to be astute enough to know that build quality is a function of management, not the workers. You are free to believe whatever you wish . LOL
"Mike" is right, on this issue. Management designs systems that ensure quality. You don't blame "Bubba" for screwing-up the job. You make it so it's really hard for Bubba to screw it up in the first place.
BS. As I said: "When the time comes that management does some of the work, I'll entertain your idea." If management hires bubbas, they get what they paid for.
Recent "management" examples:
bush - scew-up of the century.
Carly Fiorina HP CEO. She trashes the corporation and the name, turning it into a purveyor of junk. When they finally manage to get rid of her, she leaves with a huge wad of cash and a recommendation.
Condoleezza Rice. While pretending to be our national security advisor,
9/11 happens. Really nothing more than a bush suck-up from Texas, she miraculously gets promoted to secretary of state.
If given a chance, workers produce quality while management is busily designing systems that never work. Of course there are exceptions but that's the rule.
Condoleezza Rice is not from Texas. Prior to her current job as Secretary of State, here is her bio:
Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At Stanford, she was a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control from 1981-1986 (currently the Center for International Security And Cooperation), a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.
As I said, you're wrong. You haven't figured it out.
Part of management's job is training Bubba, or replacing him if needed. Get better tools. Alter the design. Perform checks. Whatever. Bottom line, quality is managements's responsibility. Period.
Unfortunately (for us), she doesn't live up to its breadth or length. Common problem with people and resumes. I'll assume you've taken the time to notice her job performance or better put, lack thereof. Nuff said.
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