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

A must read for anyone who wants to understand the evolution of best practices in a manufacturing set, especially continuous.

i think its the best book that describes and gives us clear understanding about the evolution of practices and procedures followed by the worlds leading automotive manufactures, describing importance of lean practise

The Machine is mostly helpful for the Upper management settings the strategy. Though for every one there are a lots of great insights. Most of the conclusion are well illustrated with stats. Appreciation for the authors obvious..

A must book for senior persons in organisation.Ex[plains concepts to increase profits.

Nice book

Amazing Book. Thank you Amazon

The first edition (1998) was very good but it's disappointing to see the latest revision of 2007 has nothing new. Even the trends and graphs are old. Not sure what was the need of printing a new book.

Interesting book