Managing agent swarms? Toyota solved these problems decades ago with TPS
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-11-12
Matt Carey points to Toyota's mid-20th-century manufacturing practice as a playbook for agent swarm management. The Toyota Production System rests on two pillars: jidoka (automation with a human touch — detect abnormalities, stop the line, never pass defects downstream) and Just-in-Time (make only what's needed, when needed, in continuous flow), plus daily kaizen. The mapping to agent orchestration — circuit breakers, on-demand scheduling, waste elimination — is direct.
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