Based on MITUs $5 million, five-year study on the future of the automobile, three directors of research deliver a groundbreaking analysis of the worldwide move from mass production to Lean production.
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..
Indeed, they argued That it would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating activity from health care to retail to distribution.
They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted That Lean production would eventually triumph.
Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire Lean system.
This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota\'s Lean production system That is the basis for its enduring success.
Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world\'s largest auto maker.
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors.
The classic, nationally bestselling book That first articulated the principles of Lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.
Based on MITUs $5 million, five-year study on the future of the automobile, three directors of research deliver a groundbreaking analysis of the worldwide move from mass production to Lean production
