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Title: Has some significant shortcomings
Review: Readers who have some experience working in a large manufacturing plant might be able to identify with how Joe runs his garage project, but those with no experience in manufacturing may be left with little appreciation for the story. The depiction of American manufacturing in the pamphlet is getting old. American managers have grown tired of hearing how a Japanese approach is superior and of needing to use terms such as kaizen and poka-yoke when talking about lean thinking. If the Japanese approach is so superior, why are many manfacturing companies have trouble competing in today's global market? This approach can get in the way of adoption of lean thinking. Many of the terms in the glossary are not used in the book.On the positive side the book does provide a number of bad practices, management and production.
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