The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production

Jones is the program's European research director. James P. Daniel Roos, Ph.D., is director of the International Motor Vehicle Program at MIT. . Womack, Ph.D., is the research director of the program, and Daniel T

Virginia A. Bautista said Learn From Lean Applied In The Auto Industry. Good book. I liked it. I read this book for my own personal Lean Six Sigma knowledge & improvement. I enjoyed the history of Lean using the auto industry: Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, etc. Interesting to see the progression of Lean Production & Manufacturing throughout the years. The study shows how the lack of implementation of Lean . Daniel said Very interesting book. Good book to get an introduction to Lean manufacturing. It's not a prescriptive book for lean on its own (other than to say lean is superior), so you will need to get other books or take a Lean Six Sigma class to learn how to actually implement it in your facility. Overall very interesting read to learn about the history of car manufact. R. Simpson said A great example of how research can change an entire industry. I read this after taking a tour of the Toyota plant in Kentucky. Both the tour and the book helped me understand how Toyota changed much of industrial production. I only wish there was a final chapter to explain how the process originated by Toyota has spread throughout the automotive and other industries.

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 globeaand will have a profound effect on human society. It will truly change the world." - New York TimesPaperback / 1990 / 323 pages. 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

A thorough and persuasive explanation of the benefits of lean production, along with numerous examples, mainly from Japanese industry, support their recommendations. The authors, all directors of the IMVP, recommend that Western automobile makers adopt the concept of lean production in all phases of automobile production. . This important book offers informed insight into the auto industry; for all public and academic libraries.- Joseph Barth, U.S. From Library Journal This provocative and highly readable book summarizes five years of research by the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP