Principles of Mass and Flow Production
This 55th Anniversary Special Reprint Edition ofPrinciples of Mass and Flow Production,revives the brilliant work of a practical engineer named Frank George Woollard (1883-1957), M.B.E. M.I.Mech.E. M.I.Prod.E. M.S.A.E. Woollard sought to apply a modified form of the production methods pioneered by Henry Ford to the British automobile industry. In addition to his successful application of flow production in the first decades of the 1900s, he was the first to develop and implement mechanical materials handling equipment known as automatic transfer machinery. He did so some 25 years before this type of equipment would become commonplace in industry.Frank G. Woollard's work is of great importance because it significantly expands our understanding of progressive management practices in the British motor industry in the mid- to late-1920s, and also informs us of new contributions that likely helped shape today's practice of Lean management.