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Sometimes, I just mix the content with the writing. The writing was off, draggy, too research-businessy for me. But the content was good. There were a lot of charts and tables that I conveniently ignored. Why not? I'm not writing a research paper. Also, I got my way through the main thesis (a few charts did help). And the thesis was that lean production is the best thing that happened to the auto-manufacturing industry, and even if it has its teeny-tiny flaws, it's self-improving and ever-evolving. Thanks to Toyota boys: Eiji Toyoda and Taichi Ohno.

The book actually reminded me of my first job as a design engineer (not for the right reasons). I might have applied myself more efficiently and more in the manufacturing and process management side of things, had I read it earlier. Design processes, optimization of parts, and my MD's favorite, System Engineering, could have been leaner. Anyway, would love an opportunity to use what I learned from this book in my future endeavors.

I will write a detailed review soon that'll cover the following:
1. How the American and European auto manufacturers got interested in the Japanese.
2. What techniques each industry used before Lean Production.
3. Superiority of Japanese total quality management, build-in-quality, feedback loop systems.
4. Contribution of Japanese labor in decision-making.