The Machine That Changed the World
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos
The MIT study that introduced 'lean production' to the West: craft, mass and lean compared, Toyota's methods documented, and the prediction that lean would spread. Historical and still instructive.
Read it if…
you want the origin of the lean story.
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Skip it if…
you want lean practice; see Lean Thinking or Liker.
Try instead: Screw It, Let's Do It →
Three things you will actually use
- Lean halves everything: effort, space, defects, time.
- Supplier relationships are part of the system.
- The method transfers; the culture must be built.
Do this first
Read the chapter comparing the three production systems.
Our verdict
Where 'lean' was named.
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