When one thinks of the skills necessary for auto manufacturing, origami probably doesn’t appear on the list.But the ability to create an origami cat, one-handed, with a non-dominant hand is a critical first step in the training process for stitching the instrument panel of the ’16 Lexus ES.
“Not only do you (have to) fold the (yellow) cat, you can’t have any of the white sides showing. If any of it is white, you don’t pass,” says Rob Lofton, a digitally dexterous former collegiate linebacker-turned-certified stitcher for the ’16 Lexus ES sedan assembled here.
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