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The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
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Great overview of the automotive industry since its birth until the 90s, exploring the several differences between handmade production, mass production and lean manufacturing.
The book highlights the benefits acquired in each step, just as well as the hurdles and common misconceptions faced during the implementation of both mass production and lean manufacturing.
All in all, it is a great book to understand some of the philosophy of lean manufacturing and how it has great impacts not only the bottom line, but also improves employee engagement and proactivity, just like satisfaction of customers, employees and suppliers.
It is only successfully implemented through what may seem a slow process of cultural change and implementation of new tools, but good evidence on its effectiveness is shown. As a cultural shift, of course, there might be differences in its implementation when it comes to different regions or industries.
The last 2 chapters were somewhat repetitive, but throughout the book there is good insight in how the complete implementation of lean changes the relationship all the way from the final customer back to the suppliers. The higher level of integration also helps on faster development and engineering of new products with a reasonable price-tag and a good fit to the customers' requirements.
The book highlights the benefits acquired in each step, just as well as the hurdles and common misconceptions faced during the implementation of both mass production and lean manufacturing.
All in all, it is a great book to understand some of the philosophy of lean manufacturing and how it has great impacts not only the bottom line, but also improves employee engagement and proactivity, just like satisfaction of customers, employees and suppliers.
It is only successfully implemented through what may seem a slow process of cultural change and implementation of new tools, but good evidence on its effectiveness is shown. As a cultural shift, of course, there might be differences in its implementation when it comes to different regions or industries.
The last 2 chapters were somewhat repetitive, but throughout the book there is good insight in how the complete implementation of lean changes the relationship all the way from the final customer back to the suppliers. The higher level of integration also helps on faster development and engineering of new products with a reasonable price-tag and a good fit to the customers' requirements.
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