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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">This volume carefully traces the rise of
the Toyota system from its take-off point in Ford^s mass production system to
its spread across the world, starting with the NUMMI joint venture with General
Motors in California and now advancing in Europe, Latin America, and East Asia
as well. It then identifies and describes the advantages of this system, which
needs less of everything including time, human effort, inventories, and
investment to produce products with fewer defects in smaller volumes at lower
costs for fragmenting markets. The Machine That Changed the World even gave the
system its name: lean. In the decade since its launch in the fall of 1990, The
Machine That Changed the World has sold more than 600,000 copies in 11
languages and has introduced a whole generation of managers and engineers to
lean thinking. No lean library is complete without this groundbreaking book.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">"The fundamentals of this system are
applicable to every industry across the globe and will have a profound effect
on human society. It will truly change the world." - New York Times</span></p>

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codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">James
P. Womack</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> was born on July 27, 1948. He was the
research director of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is
the founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit
institution for the dissemination and exploration of the Lean thinking with the
aim of his further development of the Lean Enterprise.</span></p>

