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Review title: Author has NO manufacturing experience
Product review: This is proof that we live in an age where anything can get published. This book takes place at HINO MOTORS LTD. - a small 60yr old facility on the outside of Tokyo, not a new efficient toyota plant as one might assume from the book title. The author goes on to critique manufacturing techniques and stratagies at this diesel truck producer. Unfortunately, he leaves out many of the most important factors that make lean manufacturing so important on the Japanese factory floor. I find it very odd that someone with no manufacturing experience would be able to critique and draw conclusions on vehicle manufacturing in Japan. However, the book does have it's strengths - if your interested in strategies for dating Japanese women, or stories of drinking sake with co-workers, then this may be the book for you.
