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Do you think Designing for Manufacturing was a contemporary set of methods? If so, think again. Our manufacturing forefathers, like Alexander Hamilton Church, understood and promoted the importance of designing products and processes for the most effective manufacturing and business over 100 years ago. Why has it taken us so long to have this part of our business today – most organizations still struggle with this.
jim
March 23, 2023
The history of flow production is long and precedes Toyota and its great work in this area. Ford’s Highland Park Plant is a source and also the writings of Alexander Hamilton Church in 1910! Some review of AH Church sounds more like contemporary descriptions, not something from over 100 years ago.
jim
February 2, 2023
Famous industrial and management Historian, Alfred Chandler Jr., and author of The Visible Hand (https://lnkd.in/gc5Qkiyd), noted who developed financial methods – it happens to be the some people who pioneered many of the methods we call “lean” today, and, particularly, early innovations of lean accounting. And they used “scientific thinking” and practices to develop these methods – where are our scientific thinking pioneers today?
jim
November 2, 2022
