From the Book - First Edition.
Failure and success in manufacturing: the General Motors-Toyota NUMMI joint venture
The Age of the artisan: The stone age
The urban revolution: the emergence of society
Advances during antiquity
The middle-ages in Europe.
The Industrial Revolution: Manufacturing Gets Mechanized: Early modern Europe
Pioneers of a new age: the factory system
Fire is stronger than blood and water: steam power
Interchangeable parts: the end of filing in assembly
Modern times: Mass Production for the Masses: Technological advances
The assembly line and the era of the industrial empires
Centrally planned economies: war, communism and other catastrophes
*Click* let-me-do-this-for-you *Clack* : computers in manufacturing
The Toyota production system and lean manufacturing.
The Cutting Edge: Where are we now?
