The fire occurred in the Aisin Seiki Co.'s Factory No. 1 in Kariya, Japan. The location here is the Aisin Corporation in Kariya but the exact location of the fire within the company needs to be determined.
The 1997 Aisin fire was a fire which shut down one of the production facilities of the Toyota-subsidiary Aisin Seiki Co. on February 1, 1997, a Saturday. The event was notable as the factory was the main supplier of a motor part for Toyota cars. Due to the just in time stock keeping philosophy of the Toyota Production System (TPS), Toyota's car factories reportedly only kept four-hour stocks of the part.[1]