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Lean Production / Lean Manufacturing | "The Machine that changed..." Lean Production Lean Production - TOC Introduction What is "Lean" "The Machine that changed the World" Lean Thinking Womack Video 1 & 2 "Lean Into the Future" Lean Enterprise Model Womack Video 3, 4 & 5 Readings and Links Manufacturing Resources Manufacturing Department Tutorials - Lean Production / Lean Manufacturing "The Machine that changed the World" DEFENSE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT COLLEGE MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT TEACHING NOTE George Noyes, 1997 The Machine that Changed the World (Synopsis) This book was written by the three senior managers of the International Motor Vehicle Program. It was a program born out of an international conference to announce publication of their previous book, The Future of the Automobile, in which they examined the problems facing the world motor-vehicle industry in 1984. The authors concluded that the auto industries of North America and Western Europe were relying on techniques that had changed very little from Henry Ford 's original mass production system and that those techniques were simply not competitive with the new set of ideas pioneered by Japanese companies. These three men decided the most constructive step they could take would be to undertake a detailed study of the new Japanese techniques, which they subsequently named "lean production", compared with older Western mass production techniques. In order to do this, they developed the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) operating out of the new Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985). The charter
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Lean Production / Lean Manufacturing | "The Machine that changed..." Lean Production Lean Production - TOC Introduction What is "Lean" "The Machine that changed the World" Lean Thinking Womack Video 1 & 2 "Lean Into the Future" Lean Enterprise Model Womack Video 3, 4 & 5 Readings and Links Manufacturing Resources Manufacturing Department Tutorials - Lean Production / Lean Manufacturing "The Machine that changed the World" DEFENSE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT COLLEGE MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT TEACHING NOTE George Noyes, 1997 The Machine that Changed the World (Synopsis) This book was written by the three senior managers of the International Motor Vehicle Program. It was a program born out of an international conference to announce publication of their previous book, The Future of the Automobile, in which they examined the problems facing the world motor-vehicle industry in 1984. The authors concluded that the auto industries of North America and Western Europe were relying on techniques that had changed very little from Henry Ford 's original mass production system and that those techniques were simply not competitive with the new set of ideas pioneered by Japanese companies. These three men decided the most constructive step they could take would be to undertake a detailed study of the new Japanese techniques, which they subsequently named "lean production", compared with older Western mass production techniques. In order to do this, they developed the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) operating out of the new Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985). The charter