"Faster, better, cheaper" in the history of manufacturing : from the Stone Age to lean manufacturing and beyond / Christoph Roser.

Author
Roser, Christoph [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1 Edition.
Published/​Created
  • Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 411 pages)

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Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27, 2017).
Contents
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface : my grandparents workshop
  • Failure and success in manufacturing : the GM-Toyota NUMMI joint venture
  • The age of the artisan
  • The stone age
  • The urban revolution : the emergence of society
  • Advances during antiquity
  • The middle-ages in Europe
  • The industrial revolution : manufacturing gets mechanized
  • Early modern Europe
  • Pioneers of a new age : the factory system
  • Fire is stronger than blood and water : steam power
  • Interchangeable parts : the end of filing in assembly
  • Social conflict
  • Modern times : mass production for the masses
  • Technological advances
  • Science meets shop floor
  • The assembly line and the era of the industrial empires
  • Centrally planned economies : war, communism and other catastrophes
  • *click* let-me-do-this-for-you *clack* : computers in manufacturing
  • The Toyota production system and lean manufacturing
  • The cutting edge
  • Where are we now?
  • Things to come
  • Appendix
  • Timelines
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author.
ISBN
  • 9781315350912 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1315350912 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781498756310
  • 149875631X
OCLC
960209706
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