SOCB54H3 Lecture Notes - W. M. Keck Observatory, Lean Manufacturing, Scientific Management
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Many japanese virtue focuses on making on automobiles. The american way of making car is costly and inefficient, first of all they have lrg inventory of spare parts, it can be seen as just-in case" situation. Also there are lrg repair areas, most of us are probably too old to recognize the acronym for. Ford fix or repair daily forman on roof dead, use low skilled workers, unskilled workers or best un semiskilled workers, also involved in fragmented work tasks, costly and inefficient. You have to work according to the pace of the assembly line, the argument here is that the given routine has a lot of absentees, due to which it has a large number of replacement workers. There was a time when consumer were told to not buy a vehicle money, since the workers spent most of their time over the weekend, getting drunk so.