The Machine That Changed the World
Title | The Machine That Changed the World PDF eBook |
Author | James P. Womack |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 2008-12-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1847375960 |
When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has been conclusively proved by Toyota's unparalleled success, and the concepts have been widely applied in many industries. Based on MIT's pioneering global study of industrial competition, THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD offers a groundbreaking analysis of the entire lean business system, including product development, supplier management, sales, service, and production - an analysis even more relevant today as GM and Ford struggle to survive and a wide range of British abd American companies embrace lean production. A new Foreword by the authors brings the story up to date and details how their predictions were right. As a result, this reissue of a classic is as insightful and instructive today as when it was first published.
The Machine that Saved the World
Title | The Machine that Saved the World PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Leinster |
Publisher | The Floating Press |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1775455599 |
What if the inhabitants of Earth received a message from the future warning of an upcoming calamity that could wipe out the entire planet? That's the plot that propels "The Machine that Saved the World" by prolific SF luminary Murray Leinster. When the denizens of the future propose a solution, however, one man harbors suspicions. Is he merely paranoid, or are his misgivings well founded?
The Machine That Saved the World
Title | The Machine That Saved the World PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Leinster |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2018-05-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781719128315 |
The Machine That Saved The World
The Machine That Saved the World
Title | The Machine That Saved the World PDF eBook |
Author | Leinster Murray |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2016-06-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781318904006 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Machine That Saved the World
Title | The Machine That Saved the World PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Leinster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2011-07-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781463898090 |
The first broadcast came in 1972, while Mahon-modified machines were still strictly classified, and the world had heard only rumors about them. The first broadcast was picked up by a television ham in Osceola, Florida, who fumingly reported artificial interference on the amateur TV bands. He heard and taped it for ten minutes--so he said--before it blew out his receiver. When he replaced the broken element, the broadcast was gone. But the Communications Commission looked at and listened to the tape and practically went through the ceiling. It stationed a monitor truck in Osceola for months, listening feverishly to nothing. Then for a long while there were rumors of broadcasts which blew out receiving apparatus, but nothing definite. Weird patterns appeared on screens high-pitched or deep-bass notes sounded--and the receiver went out of operation. After the ham operator in Osceola, nobody else got more than a second or two of the weird interference before blowing his set during six very full months of CC agitation. Then a TV station in Seattle abruptly broadcast interference superimposed on its regular network program. The screens of all sets tuned to that program suddenly showed exotic, curiously curved, meaningless patterns on top of a commercial spectacular broadcast. . . .
Machine That Saved the World
Title | Machine That Saved the World PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Leinster |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2018-05-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781718812604 |
They were broadcasts from nowhere - sinister emanations flooding in from space - smashing any receiver that picked them up. What possible defence could Earth devise against science such as this?
The Machine That Saved the World
Title | The Machine That Saved the World PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Leinster |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2017-12-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781981998623 |
They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could Earth devise against science such as this?