Books written by Takahiro Fujimoto

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  Coping with Variety: Flexible Productive Systems for Product Variety in the Auto Industry

  First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety.

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  Transforming Automobile Assembly: Experience in Automation and Work Organization

  The assembly-lines were reorganized in order to achieve higher quality at lower costs. Five years after the MIT report, this book poses the question: What are the results of this revolution in work organization?

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  The Birth of Lean

  This is an honest look at the origins of lean, written in the words of the people who created the system.

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  The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota

  ... systems in multiproduct firms , these studies have not been designed for detailed competitive analyses of ... learning , proposed in chapter 1 , is also akin to the concept of “ emergent strategy , ” or “ patterns or consisten ...

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  Evolution of Manufacturing Systems at Toyota

  This book is intended for manufacturing and engineering professionals and academics.

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  Coping with Variety: Flexible Productive Systems for Product Variety in the Auto Industry

  ... Variety The effect that product variety exerts on production depends heavily on the precise nature of the variety. The dense plant-level variety Ford offered is basically transparent for the press shop, the body shop, and the majority ...