PLANO, TX—Toyota has added eight more locations to its Technician Training & Education Network program where the company partners with schools and organizations to train future technicians.

America’s No. 1 forklift manufacturer excels at material handling.

TOYOTA CITY, Japan—Toyota Motor Corp. plans to adopt a modular manufacturing strategy that will allow it to operate smaller assembly lines.

Alabama is home to state-of-the-art auto plants operated by Daimler, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota. It’s also home to a state-of-the-art assembly line that builds toy cars out of Lego blocks: Tiger Motors.

YOKOHAMA, Japan—Ninety-six percent of the production process at Toyota’s Motomachi assembly plant is completed by robots. The plant employs 760 robots and produces one vehicle every 135 seconds.

TOKYO—Eiji Toyoda, a member of Toyota’s founding family who helped create the super-efficient “Toyota Way” production method, has died. He was 100.