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Toyota really was the pioneer of lean production. I was in college when "The Machine That Changed The World" came out, and it was required reading for anyone in business or engineering at the time. When I went to work at Ford in 1992, they were all gung-ho about JIT, lean, and the rest of it.
Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-That-Changed-World-Revolutionizing/dp/0743299795
This is simply not true. In fact, lean manufacturing, which was developed by Toyota, is one of the most significant advancements the auto industry has ever seen, and is "copied" by all major auto manufacturers today.
A great book to read about the subject is The Machine that Changed the World.
The origins of Lean are a bit murky, but the most famous example is the Toyota Production System. You can read about it in two books:
The Machine that Changed the World
and
Lean Thinking
Both are easy reads and present the core concepts of Lean in a very easy to understand way. I loan my copies out to my employees on a regular basis. The Japanese are the most famous practitioners of Lean. To them, it's like a religion.
Ten years before Elon Musk gave his rant about "the machine that builds the machine" toyota literally wrote the book on manufactering.
They created "The machine that changed the world"
It is the machine that builds the machine.
Tesla is not a leader in the automotive world, they are a lagger.
An overly expensive one at that.
Take a stroll over to Tesla Motors Forums and notice that they all have to wait months for simple repairs.
And Tesla just keeps saying we are young we will get better.... for TEN YEARS NOW.
>Don't you get it? You're demanding what no other company claimed or achieved.
What on earth are you yammering about now?
The chevy bolt is a fine electric vehicle for inner city driving.
And it don't cost 100K
>But I realize, maybe this is the wrong sub to call for realism
Like getting you to realize they don't know how to produce cars.
> I receive downvotes
I never downvote anyone, just argue with them while playing video games
That was my assumption.
Amazon link for anyone who's curious. Great read on lean manufacturing.
> I've been very interested in ideas like Toyota's かんばん
... Two interviews with the author:
ETA a paper worth reading: The Darker Side of Lean:
An Insider’s Perspective on the Realities of the Toyota Production System by Darius Mehri, 2006
Here's a summary. Of course, the book that got me interested is here, The Machine that changed the World
I might as well start.
Skunk Works -- This is a memoir by Ben Rich of Lockheed's Advanced Development Programs division(AKA Skunk Works). If you're interested in aviation, I'd highly recommend it! Ben Rich lead the Skunk Works during development of the F-117 Nighthawk and the development of stealth technology(including a stealth ship for the Navy that never got the green light). He also worked on the U-2 Dragonlady, and designed the engine inlets for the SR-71 Blackbird.
The Machine that Changed the World -- I'm currently working on this one, so I don't have a fully developed opinion just yet. So far it's pretty neat. This is an expositional work about the Toyota Production System, and similar aspects of industrial engineering(dubbed Lean Production) that were developed in Japan after WW2. The authors have a tendency to proselytize it seems like, but maybe that's for good reason. It's not my area of expertise.