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Do you have some links for the history? I'm interested in Lean and Kaizen. Made a comment about it in this thread.
by vram22 7y ago
Do you have some links for the history? I'm interested in Lean and Kaizen. Made a comment about it in this thread.
- vvanders 7y agoIt's covered a little in the TAL episode on NUMMI[1]. There's also a bit of it involved with TWI[2][3]. I'd read some other interesting things about skill transfer post-WW2 with the Marshall Plan but having trouble finding the original source material. [1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry#Post_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry#Post_... [3] https://twi-institute.org/training-within-industry/history/ https://twi-institute.org/training-within-industry/history/
- vram22 7y agoGreat, will check those links out, thank you.
- vram22 7y agoThis part from your link [2] is interesting: >In the Foreword to Dinero's book "Training Within Industry", John Shook relates a story in which a Toyota trainer brought out an old copy of a TWI service manual to prove to him that American workers at NUMMI could be taught using the "Japanese" methods used at Toyota. Thus, TWI was the forerunner of what is today regarded as a Japanese creation.