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If in 1887 Teizo Taniguchi, a humble postal worker, had been able to peer into the 21st century and see how his simple idea of ​​creating a workshop for repairing and modernizing telegraph machines had developed, he would likely have given up on it in dismay and directed his unusually sharp mind toward some other endeavor...

But, as they say, "he who thinks only of this will surely grow his own tree"...

Could the young Taniguchi – he wasn't even forty yet – have done this, with all his unbridled imagination, which sometimes frightened his colleagues, but also challenged them? It's a cautious respect to assume that within a hundred years his brainchild would grow into a vast high-tech empire, the undisputed leader in Japan, and indeed the rest of the world, in virtually every branch of mechanical engineering that fate had the fortune to master...

Back in 1887, the Taniguchi Sange workshop occupied a space of just 40 mats and employed six people, including Taniguchi himself. Despite its modest size, the company quickly gained a reputation throughout Kanagawa Prefecture as the best place to quickly and efficiently repair any electrical equipment, and often even improve it. Telegraph machines that visited the TS workshop somehow miraculously emerged not only thoroughly repaired, but also enhanced with new functions, became more user-friendly, and never failed again. The company's reputation soon spread beyond its provincial borders, the flow of orders increased exponentially, and by the early 20th century, over 40 employees were delighting their customers in the company's new two-story building. TC's scope of work also expanded significantly – its specialists undertook repairs and upgrades to virtually any electrical and mechanical equipment that was beginning to arrive in Japan from Europe and the United States. Teizo Taniguchi himself no longer worked in the workshops, but spent his time studying sophisticated foreign mechanisms, figuring out how to improve the quality and reliability of equipment even during the production stage through optimal organization of the manufacturing process itself. Teizo put his small discoveries and innovations in process management to the test by producing a batch of typewriters that significantly surpassed American products in their smoothness and precision. However, when marketing its own products, the company encountered customer reluctance to purchase Japanese-made products. Potential customers, even without seeing the product itself, assumed it would be inferior in quality and reliability to foreign goods. Indeed, such a time has indeed happened in our country's history.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan was actively preparing for the approaching war (with the Russian Empire), and Taniguchi's company was no exception. The Navy commissioned Taniguchi to grind and finish gearboxes and propellers for military boats. This delicate work, requiring the highest qualifications and continuous monitoring of the results, is carried out flawlessly by the company's specialists. It was during this time that Teizo made one of his most important conclusions: when producing a complex product, meticulous inspection of the finished product is not enough; it is far more important to organize multi-stage, thorough inspection operations during the production process itself! In this case, the production of defective products is completely eliminated, and, importantly in a competitive environment, the unit cost of a good product is reduced, since the very possibility of quality deviations is eliminated by the production organization itself. Just a few years later, Teizo Taniguchi realized the need to apply the laws of mathematical probability and statistics to production. He realized that when manufacturing, for example, two mating components—say, a shaft and a bore for it—rather than striving to produce both parts with unattainably small dimensional deviations, it's necessary to slightly expand the tolerance and produce an entire batch of both shafts and parts with a bore for the shaft. In this case, the actual geometric dimensions of the parts will be distributed in accordance with the Gaussian normal distribution. All that remains is to measure the mating dimensions during assembly of finished products from these parts and select those pairs where the agreement between these dimensions is greatest—that is,