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This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota&#8217;s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.<\/p>\n<p>Now reissued with a new Foreword and Afterword, <em>Machine<\/em> contrasts two fundamentally different business systems &#8212; lean versus mass, two very different ways of thinking about how humans work together to create value. Based on the largest and most thorough study ever undertaken of any industry &#8212; MIT&#8217;s five-year, fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program &#8212; this book describes the entire managerial system of lean production.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly twenty years ago, Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean production would eventually triumph. 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