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That's because your thinking of the manufacturing model of low skilled, ignored workers cranking out widgets in big batches. Lean, and Japanese manufacturing t
by UK-AL 11y ago
That's because your thinking of the manufacturing model of low skilled, ignored workers cranking out widgets in big batches.
Lean, and Japanese manufacturing the worker has a lot power(They can stop the line) and have final say in quality.
- gclaramunt 11y agoNo, I know about pull, Toyota, Lean, and all that. Still manufacturing and production of repeatable widgets... Will you apply the same approach to make a bunch of mathematicians prove a theorem?
- kyllo 11y agoMost computer programming (in the private sector) is not research. It is product development. It is much more like designing and prototyping a physical product like an automobile, than it is like proving a theorem.
- sheepmullet 11y agoIs there any evidence that design work and prototype work is done in the same fashion as manufacturing by these Japanese firms?
- gclaramunt 11y agoFWIW, it appears that the software development process in Toyota is pretty screwed, and the bugs that saw the light lately seems to confirm it