Book description
A closer look at Toyota’s quality and lean manufacturing problems–and the powerful lessons and warnings they represent.
In the general and business press, Toyota’s quality issues are just that: quality issues. The industrial community wonders if there might be more to it: whether Toyota’s namesake production system (TPS), also called lean manufacturing or just-in-time production (JIT), has been sullied. To see why this is a concern, consider the primary objective of the Toyota system/lean/JIT…
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Product information
- Title: Fixing Toyota: Quality Is Hard—Lean Is Much Harder
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2010
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780132596480
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