Before Henry Ford conceived of the automobile assembly line, there was Eli Whitney. While better known as the inventor of the cotton gin, a labor saving device that helpe… 展开

The new just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing system was built upon three simple goals. First, production batch sizes should be small, ideally equaling one unit at a time. Second, by shifti… 展开

Once the principles of JIT and TQM became well accepted across manufacturing, it was inevitable that refinement would occur. This updating has become known a… 展开