Synopses & Reviews
Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.
Review
Winner of the IAA Engineering Sciences Book Award
...a well-structured and well-written account of US aerospace in the increasingly popular area of lean philosophy.
-The Aerospace Professional
Review
Winner of the IAA Engineering Sciences Book Award
...a well-structured and well-written account of US aerospace in the increasingly popular area of lean philosophy.
-The Aerospace Professional
Synopsis
Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.
About the Author
Earll Murman is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Program Director of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tom Allen is Howard W Johnson Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Co-Director of the Lean Aerospace Initiative.
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is Executive Director, Engineering Systems Learning Center and Senior Research Scientist, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Table of Contents
Prologue *
Part I: Higher, Faster, Farther * The 21st Century Challenge * The Cold War Legacy * Monuments and Misalignments *
Part II: Better, Faster, Cheaper? * Lean Thinking * Islands of Success * Lean Enterprises *
Part III: Creating Enterprise Value * A Value Creation Framework * Program Value * Corporate and Government Value * National and International Value * Future Value: A US Aerospace Perspective