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Shigeo Shingo

1909 - 1990

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Shigeo Shingo (新郷 重夫, Shingō Shigeo, 1909–1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer who was considered as the world’s leading expert on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeo Shingo has received more than 287,113 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Shigeo Shingo is the 207th most popular inventor (down from 171st in 2019), the 722nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 563rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Inventor.

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  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Shigeo Shingo ranks 207 out of 426. Before him are Raymond Damadian, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Henry Maudslay, Narcís Monturiol, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, and Melvil Dewey. After him are Oliver Lodge, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Yuan Longping, J. Presper Eckert, Gerald Bull, and Robert Metcalfe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Shigeo Shingo ranks 120. Before him are Indro Montanelli, August Derleth, Juan Vicente Pérez, Pavle Đurišić, André Cayatte, and Hendrik Casimir. After him are Dana Andrews, Lamberto Maggiorani, Stephen Cole Kleene, Juan José Nogués, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Dean Rusk. Among people deceased in 1990, Shigeo Shingo ranks 96. Before him are Juan José Arévalo, Horst Sindermann, Vaso Čubrilović, Carlos Peucelle, Hayedeh, and Semyon Kurkotkin. After him are J. C. R. Licklider, Gerald Bull, Hans Freudenthal, Paul Tortelier, Stefano Casiraghi, and Berta Karlik.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeo Shingo ranks 722 out of 6,245. Before him are Shigemaru Takenokoshi (1906), Ki no Tsurayuki (866), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), Kozo Arai (1950), Yamamoto Kansuke (1493), and Isamu Chō (1895). After him are Masami Kurumada (1953), Fukusaburo Harada (null), Ikki Kita (1883), Motoo Kimura (1924), Takao Nishiyama (1942), and Masabumi Hosono (1870).

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Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Shigeo Shingo ranks 3. Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894), and Sakichi Toyoda (1867). After him are Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), and Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899).

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