Daniel T. Jones is an English author and researcher.
He won the
Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence
The ''Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence'' is an award for operational excellence given to organizations worldwide by the Shingo Institute, part of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. In order to b ...
in the Research and Professional Publication category multiple times
for his books ''
The Machine that Changed the World'', ''Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Organization'' and ''Seeing the Whole: Mapping the Extended Value Stream''.
He is also the founder of the Lean Enterprise Academy.
Education
He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the
University of Sussex. In 2015 he received an honorary
Doctorate of Science from the
University of Buckingham in the
United Kingdom.
Works
Daniel Jones along with
James P. Womack
James P. Womack was the research director of the ''International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP)'' at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is the founder and chairman of the ''Lean Enterprise Institute'', a n ...
researched the
automotive industry. Their research work with
Daniel Roos
Daniel Roos is an American engineer, focusing on the technology and policy of transportation systems, and currently the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Emeritus at Massachusetts Institut ...
, a professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the
automotive industry, found a three-to-one productivity difference between Japanese and American factories. Their research was published as a book, ''
The Machine That Changed the World'' in 1991.
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Bibliography
Books
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*Roos, Daniel, Ph.D.; Womack, James P., Ph.D.; Jones, Daniel T.: '' The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production'', Harper Perennial (November 1991), ,
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See also
* Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a production method aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers. It is closely related to another concept called just-in-time manufacturing ( ...
References
20th-century English writers
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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