Samuel Obara

Samuel Obara learned and implemented the Toyota Production System (TPS)/Lean while working at Toyota facilities in Japan, Brazil, USA, and Venezuela. With over 30 years of TPS experience, he had helped over 350 companies in diverse environments ranging from education to manufacturing companies in a variety of countries. Sammy is a faculty member with the Lean Enterprise Institute and with San Diego State University's Lean Enterprise curriculum. He has been a guest lecturer on Lean for post...See more

Samuel Obara learned and implemented the Toyota Production System (TPS)/Lean while working at Toyota facilities in Japan, Brazil, USA, and Venezuela. With over 30 years of TPS experience, he had helped over 350 companies in diverse environments ranging from education to manufacturing companies in a variety of countries. Sammy is a faculty member with the Lean Enterprise Institute and with San Diego State University's Lean Enterprise curriculum. He has been a guest lecturer on Lean for post-graduate classes at Stanford University, University of Southern California, University of California, San Diego, and Lean Institute's summits in Poland, Hungary, Netherlands, Brazil, USA and Mexico. See less