The Birth of Lean

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Takahiro Fujimoto
Lean Enterprise Institute, Mar 4, 2012 - Business & Economics - 300 pages
This is an honest look at the origins of lean, written in the words of the people who created the system. Through interviews and annotated talks, you will hear first-person accounts of what these innovators and problem-solvers did and why they did it. You¿ll read rare, personal commentaries that explain the interplay of (sometimes opposing) ideas that created a revolution in thinking.
 

Contents

How It All Began
What I Learned from Taiichi Ohno
Putting a Pull System in Place at Toyota
The Evolution of Buffering at Toyota
Total Quality Control and the Toyota Production System
The Guiding Management Perspective
Afterword
About the Editors and the Translators
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