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The Machine That Changed The World: The Story Of Lean Production - Toyota`s Secret Weapon In The Global Car Wars That Is Revolutionizing World Industry explores how the mass production driven market has shaped modern society and has almost reached its utter limit i.e. there simply is no room left in the world for a mass-producing company. Instead, the mantel has been passed on to lean production, a system that promises to rework everything from healthcare to commerce.
Lean production, just like any other production system, works by creating certain values by which society functions and by understanding these values, one understands how and why these systems work. It was written by three authors, James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos, under a massive, 5-year-long MIT project to analyze automotive production across fourteen countries. The result is an exhaustive survey of not just the mechanics of production, but also the mechanics of society as well.
The Machine That Changed The World: The Story Of Lean Production - Toyota`s Secret Weapon In The Global Car Wars That Is Revolutionizing World Industry is a valuable source of information not just to anyone related to any industry, but also to the social scientist and the curious reader who wants to know how the modern world works. It has received consistently high reviews and the new edition comes equipped with a new foreword and afterword, so that readers can understand how lean production has taken root since the book was first published in 1990.ISBN - 9781847370556
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Pages : 352
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