Training Within Industry
Subtitle: The Foundation Of Lean
Edition: Har/Com edition
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: July 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781563273070
Subjects: Production & Operations Management; Office Automation; Employees; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Training of; Business/Economics; Science/Mathematics; Organizational effectiveness; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Business & Investing / Management; Industrial efficiency
First sentence: In early 1940, if a company had all the available equipment necessary to make lenses and wanted to increase its lens-grinding capacity by training another lens grinder, it would have to wait 5 years because that is how long it would take the average person to master the art and science of lens grinding.