Appendix: Lean Training Within Industry (TWI) Timeline

Timeline for Significant Items Related to Lean and TWI

445 BC: Sophocles is attributed to have talked about the concept of learn by doing flow.

215 BC: First assembly line production, Terra Cotta Warriors, near X’ian, Shaanxi province in China.

90 BC: Earliest treatise on mnemonics, Rhetorica ad Herennium, formerly attributed to Cicero.

1020: Ibn al-Haytham, the use of empiricism and learning through testing.

1466–1536: Best memory is based on understanding, system, and care; Desiderius Erasmus. ...

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