Praise from "Industry Week," January 2003
,,"."In Henry Ford's Lean Vision...Levinson shows how the father of
American mass production toiled to eliminate waste, instituted
just-in-time delivery of inventory, and applied many other tools
now identified with lean...""
Japanese manufacturers have made concepts like "kaizen"
(continuous improvement), "poka-yoke" (error-proofing), and
"just-in-time" famous. When the Japanese began to adopt these
techniques from the Ford Motor Company during the early twentieth
century, they knew exactly what they were getting: "proven methods
for mass-producing any product or delivering any service cheaply
but well."
Henry Ford's methods, however, went well beyond the synergistic
and mutually supporting techniques that constitute what we now call
lean manufacturing. They included the "soft sciences," the
organizational psychology that makes every employee a partner in
the drive for success.
In "Henry Ford's Lean Vision," William A. Levinson draws from
Henry Ford's writings, the procedures in his factories, and
historical anecdotes about the birth of lean in Japan to show that
the philosophy that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing was the
same philosophy that grew the Ford Motor Company into a global
powerhouse -- and made the United States the wealthiest and most
powerful nation on earth. Levinson reveals how Ford was ahead of
other modern visionaries and discusses why the very ideas that made
his company such a success were abandoned in his own country, and
why they finally found acceptance in Japan.
"Henry Ford's Lean Vision" is a hands-on reference that provides
the reader with proven principles and methods that can be applied
in anybusiness or service enterprise. It covers all aspects of
building and running a successful enterprise, including Ford's
principles for human relationships and the management of physical
resources.
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