Principles of Mass and Flow Production

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Long before Toyota a British mechanical engineer named Frank George Woollard built a fully functioning flow production system - and then history overlooked him. It is a missing chapter in the history of progressive management.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Originally published in 1954 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Principles of Mass and Flow Production</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> lays out Woollard's 18 basic principles of flow drawn from his work at Morris Motors Ltd. where between 1923 and 1925 he achieved high-volume automobile engine flow production supported by pioneering automatic transfer machinery.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>His ideas - cycle time end-to-end flow from sales through suppliers visual management and respect for people - closely anticipate Toyota's management practices.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This 55th Anniversary Special Reprint Edition includes Woollard's rare 1925 paper </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Some Notes on British Methods of Continuous Production</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> along with a new preface foreword introduction and biography by Bob Emiliani Ph.D.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The book also examines the likely influence of Woollard's work on Kiichiro Toyoda and the early development of Toyota's production system. This book will be of interest to progressive management practitioners and management historians.</span></p><p></p>