My Forty Years With Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)
O fundo da minha ideia é, pois, que o desperdício da energia e a avidez do dinheiro impedem a boa produção. O desperdício é devido em grande parte a não se compreender o que se faz, ou à falta de cuidado no que se faz. E a avidez não passa de miopia. Tenho-me esforçado por produzir com o mínimo de desperdício, tanto de material como de mão de obra,
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Wilke’s secret to success? A culture of operational excellence—built on lean manufacturing, statistical process control, the theory of constraints, and purpose-built software.‡ Lean manufacturing, of course, came from the Toyota Way, the fusion of Deming’s and Japan’s “East meets West” ideas and practices. Statistical process control, too, comes st
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For more than a decade, we had very little defense work and certainly no awareness that we would one day be the world’s largest private producer of military “hardware”. This unexpected distinction was achieved during the second period — the years just before and during World War II. In this period we produced an incredible $12 billion of military g
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