"The Machine that Changed the World"

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This paper discusses the book, "The Machine that Changed the World," written by James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The paper describes the five-year-long study that took them to 14 countries and cost the Institute around $5 million. The paper explains that this expensive, but extremely useful, study was conducted to closely analyze the production and marketing strategies of automobile companies in other parts of the world and compare them with those in the United States and Europe.

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"'The Machine that changed the world' revolves around the idea that it is lean production that helped Japan rise to the very top in automobile sector because this system uses less time, less labor, less resources and produces few if any errors. Compared to the mass production system used in the US and Europe, lean production is considered less time consuming and more efficient way of manufacturing automobile. What makes the book more interesting to every kind of reader is the fact that the authors have applied the lean production technology to global market claiming that it is 'a superior way for humans to make things . . . It follows that the whole world should adopt lean production, and as quickly as possible'. (225)"

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