Robert'Doc'Hall

摘要

You cannot have a discussion about the early proponents of lean manufacturing in the United States without placing Robert "Doc" Hall high on that list. Indeed, when Hall's book "Zero Inventories" was published in 1983, the term "lean" had yet to be introduced into the manufacturing lexicon. Yet its pages described many of the ideas that evolved into what later became known as lean manufacturing-just-in-time inventories, kanban and set-up reduction, for example.