The Machine That Changed the World

The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry

By: James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.

When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.

Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean production would eventually triumph. Indeed, they argued that it would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating activity from health care to retail to distribution.

Today The Machine That Changed the World provides enduring and essential guidance to managers and leaders in every industry seeking to transform traditional enterprises into exemplars of lean success.

Good overview of Lean and TPS, but outdated

Good overview of Lean and TPS, but outdated. Limited to applications of large economies of scale.

bien aimé

c'est un beau travail sur le lean dans le domaine automobile. si toutes les entreprises pouvaient faire de même l'entrepreneurship irait bien mieux.

Great book on lean

This is a great book if you want to learn about the history of lean

Learn Lean manufacturer

very interesting book about lean manufacturing written in the 1990 with a follow on in 2007.

Good book of history of Lean

The book is about the history of lean production versus mass production and all its consequences around the globe.

It doesn't talk about any in depth technical information about lean production.