“One of the students of Taiichi Ohno said,’ We at Toyota made a mistake. We should never have called it the Toyota Production System [TPS]. We should have called it the Thinking People System, because the real point of everything is to make people think.’ ” 

Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels by Jeffrey K. Liker with George Trachilis (Lean Leadership Institute, 2014) p. 17.

Note from Ray: Taiichi Ohno was a brilliant Toyota Engineer and developed many of the key foundations of “Lean.”