Skip to main content
Site logoVirtual College
You are currently using guest access (Log in)

Philosophy of the Lean Toolbox

Page path
  • Home / ►
  • Courses / ►
  • Courses in English / ►
  • Lean Management / ►
  • leanPHIL

Topic outline

  • General

    General

    Course Tools
    • Topic 1

      Topic 1

      Course Content
      • Lean Thinking File
      • The Five Lean Principles File
      • The 18 Characteristics of Lean File
      • Agile Operations File
      • The Elements of Agility File
      • Time Based Competition File
      • Muda File
      • Taiichi Ohno's 7 wastes
      • The Waste of Overproduction File
      • The Waste of Waiting File
      • The Waste of Transporting File
      • The Waste of Inappropriate Processing File
      • The Waste of Unnecessary Inventory File
      • The Waste of Unnecessary Motions File
      • The Waste of Defects File
      • The New Wastes File
      • The Waste of Untapped Human Potential File
      • The Waste of Inappropriate Systems File
      • Wasted Energy and Water File
      • Wasted Materials File
      • Service and Office Wastes File
      • Waste of Customer Time File
      • Waste of Defecting Customers File
      • Further reading File
      • The Sustainable Lean Enterprise - The R's of Lean File
      • Gemba File
      • Acknowledgements File
    Skip Navigation

    Navigation

    • Home

      • Site pages

        • Tags

        • Calendar

        • ForumSite announcements

        • PageMore about our E-Learning Courses

      • Courses

        • Courses in English

          • OCN SPC Courses

          • Codesign

          • EMI

          • Environmental Management

          • Lean Management

            • qualCAUSE

            • leanCONT

            • leanPHIL

              • Participants

              • Topic 1

          • Miscellaneous

          • Quality Management

          • Automotive

          • Fatigue

          • Materials

          • Simulation and Models

          • Production Management

        • Kurse auf Deutsch

        • Cursos en Español

        • Cours en Français

    Skip Search forums

    Search forums

    Search
    Advanced search Help with Search
    Skip Course summary

    Course summary

    In their book The Machine That Changed The World, Womack, Jones and Roos not only renewed the JIT message that had been around for a decade in the West, but also brought home, in elegant
    prose, the message that Western manufacturing was slipping still further behind. The book centred on the car industry, and delivered a stinging rebuff to those in the industry who were saying "we
    already have that in place". Six years later, in Lean Thinking, Womack and Jones once again renewed the message, but extended it out beyond the car industry. These reflective authors have given
    manufacturing, but to an extent also service, a vision of a world transformed from mass production to lean enterprise. The five principles set forth are of fundamental importance. Reading the
    Introduction to Lean Thinking should be compulsory for every executive; unfortunately the past two decades have shown that the message is likely to lead to real change in only a few cases.

    EuroMotor Virtual College

    You are currently using guest access (Log in)
    Home
    Data retention summary