The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean ProductionHarper Collins, 1991 - 323 Seiten This volume carefully traces the rise of the Toyota system from its take-off point in Ford's mass production system to its spread across the world, starting with the NUMMI joint venture with General Motors in California and now advancing in Europe, Latin America, and East Asia as well. It then identifies and describes the advantages of this system, which needs less of everything including time, human effort, inventories, and investment to produce products with fewer defects in smaller volumes at lower costs for fragmenting markets. The Machine That Changed the World even gave the system its name: lean. In the decade since its launch in the fall of 1990, The Machine That Changed the World has sold more than 600,000 copies in 11 languages and has introduced a whole generation of managers and engineers to lean thinking. No lean library is complete without this groundbreaking book. "The fundamentals of this system are applicable to every industry across the globea[and] will have a profound effect on human society. It will truly change the world." - New York Times Paperback / 1990 / 323 pages |
Inhalt
| 11 | |
THE RISE AND FALL OF MASS PRODUCTION | 45 |
THE RISE OF LEAN PRODUCTION | 69 |
THE ELEMENTS OF LEAN PRODUCTION | 95 |
DESIGNING THE | 117 |
CONFUSION ABOUT DIFFUSION | 227 |
COMPLETING THE TRANSITION | 256 |
EPILOGUE | 276 |
APPENDIXES | 291 |
INDEX | 315 |
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Machine that Changed the World James P. Womack,Daniel T. Jones,Daniel Roos,Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1990 |
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Alfred Sloan American assembler's assembly line auto industry automation Automobile Automotive Components average buyers cars and trucks Chapter Chrysler competitive complete consumer Corporation costs countries craft production dealer dealership defects Detroit divisions economic effort Eiji Toyoda employees engineering European example export factory firms Ford Motor Company Ford's Framingham global GM's Henry Ford Highland Park Honda IMVP Working Paper International Motor Vehicle inventories investment Japa Japan Japanese companies keiretsu lean production machine manufacturing mass production Mazda ment Mexico Motor Company Motor Industry Motor Vehicle Program Nishiguchi Nissan North America NUMMI Ohno operations percent performance practically problems Product Development production system region Renault Research selling senior share skills Sloan Strategy Taiichi Ohno Takahiro Fujimoto Takaoka techniques Technology tion Toyota Motor Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Production System trade United Volkswagen Western What's workers