<P> American industrialists recognized the threat of cheap offshore labor to American workers during the 1910s , and explicitly stated the goal of what is now called lean manufacturing as a countermeasure . Henry Towne , past President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers , wrote in the Foreword to Frederick Winslow Taylor 's Shop Management ( 1911 ) , `` We are justly proud of the high wage rates which prevail throughout our country , and jealous of any interference with them by the products of the cheaper labor of other countries . To maintain this condition , to strengthen our control of home markets , and , above all , to broaden our opportunities in foreign markets where we must compete with the products of other industrial nations , we should welcome and encourage every influence tending to increase the efficiency of our productive processes . '' </P>
<P> American industrialists recognized the threat of cheap offshore labor to American workers during the 1910s , and explicitly stated the goal of what is now called lean manufacturing as a countermeasure . Henry Towne , past President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers , wrote in the Foreword to Frederick Winslow Taylor 's Shop Management ( 1911 ) , `` We are justly proud of the high wage rates which prevail throughout our country , and jealous of any interference with them by the products of the cheaper labor of other countries . To maintain this condition , to strengthen our control of home markets , and , above all , to broaden our opportunities in foreign markets where we must compete with the products of other industrial nations , we should welcome and encourage every influence tending to increase the efficiency of our productive processes . '' </P>
the american version of lean production has been called
the american version of lean production has been called
lean manufacturing
lean manufacturing