Title: 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