All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage

asked by mike on November 13, 2006 4:25 PM

World Class Manufacturing Made Simple explains basic principles behind rapid service, high quality, low cost business management. This international bestseller is endorsed by reviewers from Business Week and other publications, and by business leaders such as Bob Lutz (author of Guts, former president of Chrysler Corporation).

...JOE'S GARAGE is used by thousands of companies, large and small throughout the world, to improve profitability, performance, and employee satisfaction. The book uses a lighthearted short story that explains in easily understandable terms the concepts and techniques of 21st-century business management. It illustrates clearly how to forge a strategy for the future that will lead to outstanding personal and professional achievement.

...JOE'S GARAGE is a classic teaching fable valuable in all business functions. It is essential reading for anybody who wishes to understand how to succeed in today's environment of increasingly tough global competition. An annotated reading list and comprehensive glossary are provided.

Countless business leaders, educators, and publications agree that ...JOE's GARAGE is simply the best, and most cost-effective, roadmap for attainment of world class results.

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This book is simplistic in its approach, but it illustrates very well our society's tendency to overcomplicate processes to the point the original objective becomes almost unattainable.

reviewed by smiling on November 16, 2006 3:36 AM

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The book is a short novel that contrasts the batch and queue production system with the lean one, by means of the "socratic" discussion that the main two characters have working a week-end in the Joe's garage. By the way, the Joe in the title is the batch and queue old fashioned foreman, not one of the main characters.
I found it very useful as a basic book on the lean production subject, and got the best when I re-read the book after a while after having gained a better understanding of lean. The book is short enough to allow a second (and also a third) reading.

reviewed by theriver on November 16, 2006 6:01 PM

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This book is a situational review of a back yard application of manufacturting. If you know NOTHING about manufacturing, this book is a great intro. If you are looking for a more detailed introduction to Scheduling, Work Centers, Routing, Materials Management, Bills of Material, Inventory, and Demand Planning, this book is a complete waste of your time.

reviewed by fabio on November 25, 2006 7:38 AM

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I work for a medical products company. We purchased Joe's Garage on the basis of the endorsements from Mr. Robert Lutz (Chrysler, GM) and MANY other business executives in MANY industries. We have not been disappointed, and I cannot say enough good about this book! It has educated everybody from our company President to assembly technicians. If you want to know how to build high quality products quickly at low cost, you must read this book!

reviewed by motivations on November 27, 2006 3:15 AM

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