''The Machine That Changed the World'' is a 1990 book about automobile production, written by
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 ...
,
Daniel T. Jones, and
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 Institu ...
.
This book made the term
lean production
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 (J ...
known worldwide. A revised edition was published in 2007.
See also
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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 ( ...
*
Automotive engineering
Automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and naval architecture, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software, and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufactu ...
Bibliography
*Roos, Daniel; Womack, James P.; Jones, Daniel T.: ''The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production'', Harper Perennial (November 1990), ,
Automotive engineering
Lean manufacturing
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