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Provides an in-depth analysis of the role lean production has played in Toyota's success. Traces the evolution of lean production and discusses how it works in factory operations, product development, supply-system coordination, customer relations, and management. Examines how lean production is spreading across the world and to other industries, and considers the barriers that are preventing companies from becoming lean. Revised with a new foreword and afterword.

Industrial economics --- Production management --- lean --- auto-industrie --- productiebedrijven --- Social change --- United States --- Automobile industry and trade --- Automobile industry and trade. --- Bilindustri --- Fertigungsorganisation. --- Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. --- Kraftfahrzeugindustrie. --- Lean Production. --- Lean production. --- Japan. --- IKZ (integrale kwaliteitszorg) --- kwaliteit --- United States of America