Toyota's engineer,Ohno Taiichi,saw numerous problems with Toyota's mass production philosophy for making cars.Which of the following is one of the problems?

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First,long production runs created massive inventories that had to be stored in large warehouses.This was expensive,both because of the cost of warehousing and because inventories tied up capital in unproductive uses.Second,if the initial machine settings were wrong,long production runs resulted in the production of a large number of defects.Third,the mass production system was unable to accommodate consumer preferences for product diversity.

Toyota's Engineer,Ohno Taiichi,saw Numerous Problems with Toyota's Mass Production Philosophy