精益企業的基本原則(英文)(pdf 38頁)

Origin and evolution of lean concepts
Core lean principles & practices
How lean differs from craft and mass production models of industrial organization
Lean implementation steps
Value stream mapping
On August 15, 1945 --end of war with Japan --Toyota faced a daunting challenge: How to succeed against Western mass production auto giants poised to enter Japanese market?
Kiichiro Toyoda to Taiichi Ohno (father of lean production): “Catch up with America in three years.”
Ohno’s challenge: How to design a production system exploiting central weaknesses of mass production model
Japan faced many dilemmas: small & fragmented market, depleted workforce, scarce natural resources, little capital Lean evolved as a coherent response to this challenge over a number of decades --a dynamic process of learning and adaptation later labeled as “lean production” by Western observers
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