*The Machine That Changed the World* and lean manufacturing
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$5M, five-year MIT study (Womack, Jones, Roos) on the future of the automobile; origin of the term "lean manufacturing." Toyota beating GM/Ford/Chrysler on quality.
Since that time, the Navy started instituting SUBSAFE in the shipyards, and other people started picking it up. There are various terms, one of which is lean manufacturing. If you look up lean manufacturing on Wikipedia, this is a figure. Sometimes people call this the house of quality. Quality at the top, stability of your foundation. You've heard of Kaizen and all these little terms, a lot of which come out of the Japanese. Lean manufacturing — where did the term "lean" come from? Came out of this book right here, The Machine That Changed the World, based on the MIT five-million-dollar five-year study on the future of the automobile.