Womack, James

Womack, James P. and Jones, Daniel T., Beyond Toyota how to root out waste and pursue perfection. Harvard Business Review, September-October 1996, pp. 140-158. 

Womack, James P., and Daniel T. Jones. Lean Thinking Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporations, 2nd ed. Northampton, MA Free Press, 2003. 

WOMACK, James P. / JONES, Daniel T. / ROOS, Daniel The machine that changed the world The story of lean production Harper Perennial, 1991 ISBN 0060974176... 

First articulated in The Machine That Changed the World (New York Harper Perennial, 1999) authors James Womack and Daniel Jones distilled Lean into hve principles in their follow-on work. Lean Thinking ... 

Akihito Ozawa, Mark R. Band, Joshua H. I arson, Jena Donovan, Cheryl A. Green, James E. Womack, Harris A. Lewin, Comparative organization of cattle chromosome 5 revealed by comparative mapping by annotation and sequence similarity and radiation hybrid mapping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 97 (2000), 4150-4155. 

As noted in Lean Thinking by James Womack, the ideal, lowest-cost situation is where the entire supply chain operates with no inventory, and parts or product are made to order. Companies need to do everything they can to approach this ideal to remove costs from the system. As the ideal is approached, the delivery time of products can be improved and the quality of the products will also improve. 

Lean enterprise A term coined by James Womack and Daniel Jones to extend the idea of lean manufacturing along the supply chain, including production partners. The lean enterprise is operationally synchronized with end-user demand. (Womack and Jones were the originators of lean terminology.) (Adapted from APICS Dictionary, 10th edition)... 

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