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Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production

Based upon MIT's five-million-dollar, five-year study on the future of the automobile, a groundbreaking analysis of the worldwide move from mass production to lean production".The fundamentals of this system are applicable to every industry across the globe...[and] will have a profound impact on human society—it will truly change the world". "—New York Times Magazine"

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 323 pages

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