Toyota Production System: Practical Approach to Production Management

"Winner of Japan's prestigious NIKKEI Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science . . . presents in detail one of the most successful and talked about of the Japanese manufacturing systems - Toyota. Working closely with Taiichi Ohno, founder of the Toyota production system, Yasuhiro Monden develops the theory and explains step-by-step the application of this state-of-the-art production management system as it's practiced in Japan."