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Chapter 1
The Need for a Lean
Management Standard
The bottom-line results of Lean manufacturing were incontrovertible almost
100 years ago, and long before the leaders at Toyota even heard of it.
Charles Buxton Going’s preface to Arnold and Faurote (1915) describes these
results in the language of money—the same language that gains buy-in from
executives, CEOs, and other decision makers.
Ford’s success has startled the country, almost the world, finan-
cially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than
most persons would have thought possible the seemingly con-
tradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant
increase ...