"A closer look at Toyota's quality and lean manufacturing problems--and the powerful lessons and warnings they represent. In the general and business press, Toyota's quality issues are just that: quality issues. The industrial community wonders if there might be more to it: whether Toyota's namesake production system (TPS), also called lean manufacturing or just-in-time production (JIT), has been sullied."--Resource description page.
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Contents
Cover13; -- Fixing Toyota: Quality Is Hard8212;Lean Is Much Harder -- Evolution At Toyota -- Toyotas Growth Strategy -- Toyotas Eroding Advantages -- Competitive Parity -- Recovery -- How They Caught Up -- Toyotas Challenges -- Staying on Course -- Endnotes.