In the early 1950s, representatives of Toyota Company visited the plants of their rival Ford and were surprised to find that staff there worked significantly faster than their Toyota peers. The visit inspired a productivity enhancement idea, which became the basis for the Toyota Production System (TPS) or lean management idea. The experiment showed that productivity could be increased several times over. When the operations chain was optimized and...
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World Bank.
Best Result by Smart Approach (English). ECA Resource Efficiency Program Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099550108072432567