The Machine That Changed The World
The Machine That Changed The World: The Story of Lean Production: How Japan's Secret Weapon in the Global Auto Wars Will Revolutionize Western Industry. Copyright 1990 by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos, and Donna Sammons Carpenter. (Womack, Jones, and Roos direct the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program.)
[ISBN: 0-06-097417-6] From the table of contents:
- 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