lean
Lean Startup related methods are often referred to as "Lean" for short, but what does it really mean? 1980s Research at MIT
Research Director James P. Womack
[How Lean Manufacturing Will Change the Global Automotive Industry" seems to be the Japanese translation of this article.
A study of production systems in the Japanese automobile industry (mainly the Toyota Production System), and a re-systematization and generalization of the results of that study. Comparing GM's Framingham plant with Toyota's Takaoka plant
GM is mass production with the Ford production system, Toyota is high-mix, low-volume production
Order only the amount of parts needed on the production line
Just in time (JIT)
Make what you need, when you need it, and as much as you need it.
Abstraction from "how to build a car" to "how to think".
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