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

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Title:

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

Author:

Womack, James P.

ISBN:

9780743299794

Edition:

1st trade pbk. ed

Publication Information:

New York : Free Press, 2007

Physical Description:

viii, 336 p. : ill ; 22 cm

Contents:

The industry of industries in transition -- THE ORIGINS OF LEAN PRODUCTION: The rise and fall of mass production -- The rise of lean production -- THE ELEMENTS OF LEAN PRODUCTION: Running the factory -- Designing the car -- Coordinating the supply chain -- Dealing with customers -- Managing the lean enterprise --DIFFUSING LEAN PRODUCTION: Confusion about diffusion -- Completing the transition -- Epilogue -- Afterword 2007: What we have learned about lean procuction since 1990 -- Appendixes

Subject Term:

Automobile industry and trade -- Japan.

Local Subject:

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIBRARY

Added Author:

Jones, Daniel T.

Roos, Daniel.

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Summary

The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.

When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world's largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.

Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean production would eventually triumph. Indeed, they argued that it would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating activity from health care to retail to distribution.

Today The Machine That Changed the World provides enduring and essential guidance to managers and leaders in every industry seeking to transform traditional enterprises into exemplars of lean success.

Author Notes

James P. Womack is the president and founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute (www.lean.org), a nonprofit education and research organization based in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Daniel T. Jones is the chairman and founder of the Lean Enterprise Academy (www.leanuk.org), a nonprofit education and research organization based in the UK.

Foreword 2007

Why Toyota Won: A Tale of Two Business Systems Before You Begin This Book

1 The Industry of Industries in Transition

The Origins of Lean Production

2 The Rise and Fall of Mass Production

3 The Rise of Lean Production

The Elements of Lean Production

4 Running the Factory

5 Designing the Car

6 Coordinating the Supply Chain

7 Dealing With Customers

8 Managing the Lean Enterprise Diffusing Lean Production

9 Confusion About Diffusion

10 Completing The Transition

Epilogue

Afterword 2007

What We Have Learned About Lean Production Since 1990

Notes

Appendixes

A International Motor Vehicle Program Sponsoring Organizations

B International Motor Vehicle Program Research Affiliate Team

C Imvp Program and Forum Participants

Acknowledgments

Index

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