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Machine that Changed the World [Hardcover]

James P. Womack (Author)

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Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Scribner (Oct 10 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0892563508
ISBN-13: 978-0892563500
Product Dimensions: 16 x 22.9 x 3.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #546,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This provocative and highly readable book summarizes five years of research by the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at MIT into the role of the autmobile industry in the world economy. The authors, all directors of the IMVP, recommend that Western automobile makers adopt the concept of lean production in all phases of automobile production. A thorough and persuasive explanation of the benefits of lean production, along with numerous examples, mainly from Japanese industry, support their recommendations. This important book offers informed insight into the auto industry; for all public and academic libraries.
- Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad. Lib., West Point, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Today, the industrial world is experiencing the most revolutionary change since Henry Ford's assembly line -- which forever changed the way things are made. Japanese companies are sweeping the world, as Western companies and governments struggle to find ways to emulate them.

The Machine That Changed the World points for the first time to a positive way out of this dilemma. It shows that being defeatist about the Japanese threat, and tougher protectionism, are not the answers.

This book outlines the enormous tasks facing Western companies in the 1990s and has cogent messages for Japanese firms as well, as they move abroad.

The Machine That Changed the World is based on the largest and most thorough study ever undertaken in any industry: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology five-million-dollar, five-year, fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program's study of the worldwide auto industry.

Twice in this century the auto industry has changed our most fundamental ideas about how to make things. Now it is doing it again. Just as mass production swept away craft production, so a new way of making things, called lean production, is now rapidly making mass production obsolete.

Lean production is the Japanese secret weapon in the industrial wars and is spreading throughout the world. If Western companies and their managers and workers are to survive in the 1990s, they must learn and adapt to lean production. Some of the smartest already have begun to do so.

Lean production welds the activities of everyone from top management to line workers, to suppliers, into a tightly integrated whole that can respond almost instantly to marketing demands from consumers. It can also double production and quality, while keeping costs down. Its adoption, as it inevitably spreads beyond the auto industry, will change almost every industry and consequently how we work, how we live, and the fate of companies and nations as they respond to its impact.

In clear and compelling terms, this book explains what lean production is, and its global implications for all of us.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The beauty of thinking, Nov 17 2003

Aydin Ozol (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

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This book should be read by every business student. It is a perfect summary of 20th century's industrial development.
This book also provides a perfect insight to large scale academic programs and reseachs. Every student reading this book will gain much more than taking 2 or 3 courses in an MBA program. This book has much to offer than any of the books that I have read. It makes you think and then gives the answers and at the end it presents with you issues to think further.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Understanting the Toyota Way, Feb 21 2004

Cleber Favaro "Cleber" (Sao Paulo, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews
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Since the beginning of the 50's, Toyota has been a making a revolution in the way corporation works. A real unique approach named lean has been allowing the company to achieve superior performance concurrently in manufacturing, product development and suppliers management. The Machine brings to the reader a wide explanation of "Toyota Way". If you are looking for a book about Lean and you'd like to understand Toyota, it certainly should be your first choice!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mistake, Jun 18 2002

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The Machine that Changed the World has been published more than once. Amazon, you're offering a special "buy these 2 titles, and save", but they are the exact same book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for every student in business and engineering
This book is about a major study that has been executed in the beginning of the eighties about the competiveness of car manufacturing plants. Read more

Published on Sep 29 2001 by Wijgergangs

3.0 out of 5 stars This is not a "how to book", but rather, a "history of" book
Remember, this was published in 1990, and today is out of date. If you have come looking for specific examples, or secrets of how the Japanese have been making such huge gains,... Read more

Published on Aug 7 1999