Toyota is a leader in automobile manufacturing due to employing principles known as the "Toyota Way", which focus on continuous improvement, respect for people, and challenging partners to improve. The Toyota Way consists of 14 principles such as basing decisions on long-term philosophies, creating continuous process flow, using pull systems, and becoming a learning organization. Lean manufacturing aims to eliminate waste through simplifying processes, standardizing tasks, and improving quality. The seven types of waste include overproduction, waiting time, transportation, inventory, motion, overprocessing, and defects. Value stream mapping is used to visualize product flow and identify sources of waste in order to establish future improvements.