The Machine That Changed the World
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Santa Fe Manufacturing Strategies (IN3016) Profesor: Dra. María Teresa Del Carmen Ibarra Santa Ana Carlos Agami Zaga A01014834 Reading Report: The Machine That Changed The World
Article Report: “The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success” Introduction The book in question is the presentation of a 5 year study made by a team of specialists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the International Motor Vehicle Program, which pursued to find an outlook on this world transcendent industry which causes considerable impacts on the countries development. The study was conducted with the aid of automobile companies which not only provided in the whole 5 million dollars for the researches to be done but gave their facilities and opened up their operations and intellectual assets to the IMVP team because they were really interested in the results that may come from the program. Summary This book, by which Daniel Roos, Daniel T. Jones and James P. Womack, and their team of specialists in many areas analyze the differences in the automobile industry in North America, Europe and Japan and compare their practices in order to find the most efficient ones as well as communicate to the world the, so named by them, lean production that may be applied to any industry. Initially the authors make a little bit of history on the car producing development which starts in the city of Paris where the company P & L (Panhard et Levassor) devoted its operations to the production of fully customized cars for each customer and his preferences, creating each automobile separately in a craftsmanship based system. This production strategy had important problems in what relates to quality and efficiency, but represents the main base for the development of mass production. The ideologies of Henry Ford which pursued the minimization of costs in a automobile production system through volume producing of
Article Report: “The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success” Introduction The book in question is the presentation of a 5 year study made by a team of specialists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the International Motor Vehicle Program, which pursued to find an outlook on this world transcendent industry which causes considerable impacts on the countries development. The study was conducted with the aid of automobile companies which not only provided in the whole 5 million dollars for the researches to be done but gave their facilities and opened up their operations and intellectual assets to the IMVP team because they were really interested in the results that may come from the program. Summary This book, by which Daniel Roos, Daniel T. Jones and James P. Womack, and their team of specialists in many areas analyze the differences in the automobile industry in North America, Europe and Japan and compare their practices in order to find the most efficient ones as well as communicate to the world the, so named by them, lean production that may be applied to any industry. Initially the authors make a little bit of history on the car producing development which starts in the city of Paris where the company P & L (Panhard et Levassor) devoted its operations to the production of fully customized cars for each customer and his preferences, creating each automobile separately in a craftsmanship based system. This production strategy had important problems in what relates to quality and efficiency, but represents the main base for the development of mass production. The ideologies of Henry Ford which pursued the minimization of costs in a automobile production system through volume producing of