Andy & Me

Description:

2006 SHINGO PRIZE for EXCELLENCE in MANUFACTURING RESEARCH Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas, the plant manager. The situations, characters and plant politics will ring true with many readers. In a cool, readable style, Andy & Me follows Tom's relationship with Andy Saito, a reclusive, retired Toyota guru whom Tom persuades to help save his plant through the teaching of the legendary Toyota Product.

subjects: Literature,  Business,  Production management,  Production control,  Just-in-time systems,  Manufacturing processes,  Fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fabrication,  Romans, nouvelles,  Production,  Gestion,  Juste-à-temps (Système),  Contrôle