Machine That Changed The World The Story Of Lean Production Toyotas Secret Weapon In The Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World I

Author : James P. Womack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847375960
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine That Changed the World written by James P. Womack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has been conclusively proved by Toyota's unparalleled success, and the concepts have been widely applied in many industries. Based on MIT's pioneering global study of industrial competition, THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD offers a groundbreaking analysis of the entire lean business system, including product development, supplier management, sales, service, and production - an analysis even more relevant today as GM and Ford struggle to survive and a wide range of British abd American companies embrace lean production. A new Foreword by the authors brings the story up to date and details how their predictions were right. As a result, this reissue of a classic is as insightful and instructive today as when it was first published.

Author : James P. Womack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471111008
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean Thinking written by James P. Womack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called 'lean thinking' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow steadily in sales and profits through 1996. Even though the recession of 1997 never happened, companies were starving for information on how to make themselves leaner and more efficient. Now we are dealing with the recession of 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2002. So what happened to the exemplar firms profiled in Lean Thinking? In the new fully revised edition of this bestselling book those pioneering lean thinkers are brought up to date. Authors James Womack and Daniel Jones offer new guidelines for lean thinking firms and bring their groundbreaking practices to a brand new generation of companies that are looking to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Author : James P. Womack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416554521
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine That Changed the World written by James P. Womack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Y. Monden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461597145
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toyota Production System written by Y. Monden and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing system is an internal system in use by its founder, Toyota Motor Corporation, but it has taken on a new look. Toyota Production System, Second Edition systematically describes the changes that have occurred to the most efficient production system in use today. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1983, Toyota has integrated JIT with computer integrated manufacturing technology and a strategic informa tion system. The JIT goal of producing the necessary items in the necessary quantity at the necessary time is an internal driver of production and operations management. The addition of computer integrated technology (including expert systems by artificial intelligence) and information systems technology serve to further reduce costs, increase quality, and improve lead time. The new Toyota production system considers how to adapt production schedules to the demand changes in the marketplace while satisfying the goals of low cost, high quality, and timely delivery. The first edition of this book, Toyota Production System, published in 1983, is the basis for this book. It was translated into many languages including Spanish, Russian, Italian, Japanese, etc., and has played a definite role in inspiring production management systems throughout the world.

Author : James P. Womack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743277791
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean Solutions written by James P. Womack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As consumers, we have a greater selection of higher quality goods & services to choose from, yet our experience of obtaining & using these items is more frustrating than ever. At the same time, companies find themselves with declining customer loyalty & greater challenges in fulfilling orders. This text offers solutions to these problems.

Author : Matthias Beck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137351993
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare written by Matthias Beck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. It reviews the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades.

Author : Karmen Pažek
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839691492
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean Manufacturing written by Karmen Pažek and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lean manufacturing is a process used in production to maximize efficiency and minimize waste by considering sustainability and the environment. This book presents a comprehensive overview of lean manufacturing in various enterprises, including manufacturing, construction, and the fabric and textile industry, among others. Chapters cover such topics as barriers to lean manufacturing, enterprise modeling, lean practices and circular economies, and more.

Author : Kazuo Wada
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811549281
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Toyota Production System written by Kazuo Wada and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book utilizes historical evidence to describe the development of the Toyota Production System (TPS). The development of TPS typifies the transformation of production control in interchangeable industries in the twentieth century. Much of the extensive literature available on TPS has been geared toward describing TPS from a number of different perspectives. Many researchers consider TPS distinct from American mass-production systems. Although TPS (and, more generally, the production control systems in the Japanese assembly industry) has differentiated itself from similar US production systems, the evolution of TPS is largely attributable to attempts to learn from, imitate, and modify pre-World War II US production methods. Through these efforts, TPS has achieved levels of efficiency in Japan comparable to those of US production systems. Additionally, a reliance on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in relation to production control has facilitated the development of TPS. The literature on TPS, however, has largely ignored the vital relationship between ICT and production control due to an inordinate focus on “Kanban.” Kanban translates to “signboard” in Japanese but is used to refer to an organic linkage between work in preceding and subsequent production processes. This book sheds light on the development of a fully digitalized Bill of Materials (BOM) at Toyota, behind its Kanban and production control.

Author : Ganesh Mahadevan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811943400
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean Management for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises written by Ganesh Mahadevan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a step-by-step guide to implementing lean at SMEs using an approach that has been tested and fine-tuned at over a hundred organizations across India, South East Asia and the Middle East. The book approaches Lean through an implementation project cycle flow and enables the reader to understand the imperative for Lean, how to diagnose current operations, how to plan and deploy Lean and shows a path for long-term sustenance. Diverse situations such as meeting the demand fluctuations, designing a facility, or improving profit margin etc. are included in the case studies from multiple sectors, to ensure that every reader finds a situation similar to their organizational situation. While the publicly available literature on lean offers a large collection of tools and techniques, given each organization’s unique context, the choice of the right sequence of tools differ. The book offers guidelines in terms of which solutions work in which context, backed by real-cases, which is a big help to the resource constrained SMEs. This book is an equally good resource for the organizations that have already implemented lean, as it provides realistic pointers about sustaining, tackling supply chain uncertainties and going beyond Lean by integrating emerging technologies and management principles. It is an excellent resource for students and researchers studying this area and also for corporates, professionals and industry watchers.

Author : David Magee
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9781591842293
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Toyota Became #1 written by David Magee and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Magee explores Toyotas past and present in order to reveal how this car company has sustained such tremendous success. The lessons that Magee explains here can be valuable for managers in all disciplines and industries.