Shigeo Shingo’s P-Course and Actual Role at Toyota, by Isao Kato

A first-person account by Isao Kato, retired manager of training and development at Toyota, who organized Shigeo Shingo’s training visits from 1960 to the mid 1980s. It documents the four versions of the P-course with day-by-day outlines, states the course was taught about 80 times to roughly 30 people per session, and clarifies that Shingo was a valued outside instructor who did not develop JIT, jidoka, kanban, or standardized work.