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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,011 ratings — published
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,632 ratings — published 2003
The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,564 ratings — published 1990
Toyota Production System: Beyond large-scale production (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,085 ratings — published 1978
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.51 — 200 ratings — published 2007
Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.89 — 192 ratings — published 1996
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,020 ratings — published 1996
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,473 ratings — published 2009
Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.43 — 35 ratings — published
How To Implement Lean Manufacturing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.97 — 77 ratings — published 2009
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,922 ratings — published 2009
Factory Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.33 — 132 ratings — published 1995
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.18 — 274 ratings — published 2007
Out of the Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,572 ratings — published 1982
A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Produce What Is Needed, When It's Needed)
by (shelved 6 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.09 — 113 ratings — published 1989
The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.00 — 503 ratings — published 2005
The Origins of Efficiency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.14 — 328 ratings — published
Manufacturing Technology, Volume 1: Foundry, Forming and Welding (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.08 — 98 ratings — published 2013
A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.28 — 87 ratings — published 1985
The Toyota Way Fieldbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.18 — 714 ratings — published 2005
Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.10 — 636 ratings — published 1997
Materials Processes in Manufacturing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.25 — 60 ratings — published 1974
Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.14 — 775 ratings — published 1999
Maintenance Engineering Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 1994
Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.77 — 515 ratings — published 2013
Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials (5th Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.16 — 102 ratings — published
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,783 ratings — published
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,503 ratings — published 2023
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.83 — 863 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.32 — 79,024 ratings — published 2023
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,634 ratings — published 2022
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,762 ratings — published 1978
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,375 ratings — published 1988
Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.90 — 280 ratings — published 2002
Manufacturing Engineering and Technology (4th Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.23 — 197 ratings — published
The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.28 — 563 ratings — published 2017
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A Textbook of Production Technology: Manufacturing Processes [Dec 01, 2006] Sharma, P. C. (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.03 — 328 ratings — published 2009
Operations Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.84 — 257 ratings — published 1995
Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,806 ratings — published 2010
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,306 ratings — published 2002
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,157 ratings — published 2025
From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society, 4)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 3.88 — 60 ratings — published 1984
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,832 ratings — published 2018
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,172 ratings — published 2023
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.12 — 304,052 ratings — published 2001
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,215 ratings — published 1994
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.15 — 187,095 ratings — published 1855
Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.18 — 545 ratings — published 1980
Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly (Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.30 — 47 ratings — published 1994
Manufacturing Processes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as manufacturing)
avg rating 4.40 — 20 ratings — published 2013
“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears....
In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The ecologists are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire.”
― The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The ecologists are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire.”
― The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
